In re Dana’s Empirical Analysis

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5 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions

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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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Tbe principal question arising on this petition to revise is whether a District Court of the United States, in which proceedings in’ bankruptcy are pending, and which is in tlie actual possession of certain real property conceded to belong to the bankrupt, has jurisdiction to determine the amount and order of priority of liens thereon, and to liquidate such liens, to-the end that the property may be sold free of incumbrances, and in aid i.hereof to enjoin the lienholders from prosecuting the foreclosure of their liens in a suit brought in a state court before the commencement of the bankruptcy proceedings, but within four months thereof; and this, though the lienholders object to such jurisdiction, and it is not contended that their liens are preferential or fraudulent, or invalid for any other reason.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Donnelly