Bray v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
166 F. 57 · 1908
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 1936
5 federal appellate · 5 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Dressel v. North State Lumber Co. · Rossbach v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That neither the referee * * * nor the trustee shall in any form or guise receive, nor shall the court allow them, any other or further compensation for their services than that expressly authorized and prescribed in this act.” Oomp. St. § 9656.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““Referees shall receive as full compensation for their services, payable after they are rendered, a fee of fifteen dollars deposited with the clerk at the time the petition is filed in each case, except when a fee is not required from a voluntary bankrupt, and twenty-five cents for every proof of claim filed for allowance, to be paid from the estate, if any, as a part of the cost of administration, and from estates which have been administered before them one per centum commissions on all moneys disbursed to creditors by the trustee, or one-half of one per centum on the amount to be paid to creditors upon the confirmation of a composition.” Oomp. St. § 9624.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Simpson v. Laffoon““The courts are authorized to continue the business of bankrupts, and this referee exercised this authority, which, in passing, it may be said as to a transaction of this magnitude, without the express sanction of the court, was of exceedingly doubtful propriety, and the issuance of trustees’ certificates for $75,000, or indeed for any amount, assuming it should be done in a bankruptcy case at all, ought manifestly not to be thought of by a referee. The temptation, if a referee could thus increase his compensation, to err, would be too great.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.