Berner v. Equitable Office Bldg. Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
175 F.2d 218 · 1949
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1994 · most notably Wolf v. Weinstein (1963), In Re Kendavis Industries International, Inc. (1988)
25 federal appellate · 2 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. § 501
Relies on Woods v. City Nat Bank & Trust Co of Chicago · Young v. Higbee Co. · Crites, Inc. v. Prudential Insurance · Estate of McLellan · Shulkin v. Shulkin
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[W]e think that the consequences should be only those which attend any breach of trust in equity: i. e., that in determining what the trustee’s compensation shall be, the court will, as a matter of discretion, diminish the allowance which it would otherwise make, in proportion to the gravity of the breach.” Id. at 222 (footnote omitted).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“there was no proof of conduct which necessarily forfeited his rights either under § 249, or upon general equitable principles; but that there was proof of conduct which required his allowance to be reduced in an amount which the district court should fix in its discretion. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.