George West Co v. Lea’s Empirical Analysis

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95 federal appellate · 89 district · 21 state decisions

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

1. ““Acts of bankruptcy by a person shall consist of his having conveyed, transferred, concealed or removed, or permitted to be concealed or removed, any part of his property with intent to hinder, delay, or defraud his creditors, or any of them, * * * or, being insolvent, applied for a receiver or trustee for his property or because of insolvency a receiver or trustee has been put in charge of his property under the laws of a state, of a territory or of the United States.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Rome Planing Mill · In re Larkin

2. ““(2) Transferred while insolvent any portion of his property to one or more of Ms creditors with intent to prefer such creditors over his other creditors,” etc.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Rome Planing Mill · In re Larkin

3. ““Now, when it is considered that the present law, although it only retained some of the provisions of the act of 1867, contains an express declaration that a deed of general assignment shall authorize the involuntary bankruptcy of the debtor making such a deed, all doubt as to the scope and intent of the law is removed. The conclusive result of a deed of general assignment under all our previous bankruptcy acts, as well as under the English bankrupt laws, and the significant import of the incorporation of the previous rule, by an express statement, in the present statute have been lucidly expounded by Addison Brown, J., in Re Gutwillig (D. C.) 90 Fed. 475 , 478. * * * Our conclusion, then, is that, as a deed of general assignment for the benefit of creditors is made by the bankruptcy act alone sufficient to justify an adjudication in involuntary bankruptcy against the debtor making such deed, without reference to his solvency at the time of the filing of the petition, the denial of insolvency by way of defense to a petition based upon the making of a deed of general assignment is not warranted by the bankruptcy law.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Federal Mail & Express Co.