In re Post’s Empirical Analysis
17 F.2d 555 · 1927
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 1969
8 federal appellate · 2 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 Frank Thompson v. Henry Fairbanks · Benedict v. Ratner · Hiscock v. Varick Bank of New York · Humphrey v. Tatman · Benedict v. Ratner
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under the law of Massachusetts, however, a mortgage of after-acquired property is valid, although the mortgagor retains possession, and the mortgagee, who takes possession before rights of third parties have intervened and before the filing, of a petition in bankruptcy, has a valid title to such property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.