Kavanas v. Mead’s Empirical Analysis
171 F.2d 195 · 1948
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 1983
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 104
Relies on Jewell Ridge Coal Corporation v. Local No. 6167, United Mine Workers of America · In re Public Ledger, Inc. · In re Rouse, Hazard & Co. · Warner v. Kagan · 78 F. Supp. 565 - In Re Kinney Aluminum Co.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * The decision of the District Judge as to the balance of the claims gives the claimants no cause for complaint. The miners who performed no services during the three month period preceding bankruptcy were clearly not entitled to priority in respect to vacation pay based on that period, and those who worked during that period were fully compensated in this respect by the allowance of priority to vacation pay for one-fourth of a year. Affirmed.” Implied assumption not involved.”
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.