Martin v. Orgain’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 federal appellate · 12 district ·

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

1. ““If a contract and a statute can fix a liability, it must be conceded it was fixed in this case. Without conceding that appellant’s claim is required to be proved under section 63, or that it may not be provable under clause 1 or 4 of that section as a fixed liability founded upon an express contract evidenced by an instrument in writing and absolutely owing at date of filing petition, we are of opinion that section 63 relates principally to unsecured debts, and that all creditors who wish to participate in creditors’ meetings and dividends must bring their cases under some one of the heads therein specified, but in relation to claimed liens, such as here presented, section 57, ‘Proof and allowance of claims,’ section 63, ‘Debts which may be proved,’ section 64, ‘Debts which have priority,’ and section 67, ‘Liens,’ should be construed together and to the effect that a lien under a state law given in good faith, not impaired or affected by the bankruptcy law, should be allowed and given its legal priority.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Scruggs