Johnson v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
175 F.2d 65 · 1949
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 2002
6 federal appellate ·
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 Pepper v. Litton · Taylor v. Standard Gas & Electric Co. · Prudence Realization Corp. v. Geist · Schuyler v. Littlefield · Arnold Investment Co. v. Citizens State Bank
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is thus not sufficient for one seeking a preference to merely show that his property was wrongfully taken by the bankrupt, co-mingled with his other assets and used in his business. He must trace his property in its original or converted form into specific or identifiable property in the possession of the receiver.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is not enough to show that the ... funds went into the assets of the bankrupt, but it must be further shown that such funds came into the possession of the trustee either in their original form or in a converted form of one kind or another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Wayne R. Ogden
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.