Oppenheimer v. Oldham’s Empirical Analysis
178 F.2d 386 · 1949
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1993 · most notably Dewsnup v. Timm (1992), United Savings Ass'n of Texas v. Timbers of Inwood Forest Associates, Ltd. (1986)
21 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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
Relies on Vanston Bondholders Protective Committee v. Green · Lawrence E. Sexton v. Leopold Louis Dreyfus · Josiah Coder v. William Arts · City of New York v. Saper · Pfister v. Northern Illinois Finance Corp.
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.
““It has always been a fundamental principle of the bankruptcy law that the property rights and interests designated as liens and pledges, when valid in bankruptcy, shall not be impaired in the administration of a bankrupt estate. The Chandler Act manifests no intent to deviate from that principle. It is true that in the revision of Sec. 67, sub. d the Chandler Act did not retain the old language saying expressly that liens valid in bankruptcy shall ‘not be affected by anything herein’, but that provision was simply declaratory of the obvious import reflected, and still reflected, frequently in the substantive terms of the law, and the omission of such redundancy is not significant.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““He was not really a movant, nor yet an intruder or volunteer. He came into Court and sought protection to hold, rather than purposely to foreclose, his lien .... The appellant’s note contained a 10% attorney’s fee clause, and, free to act, he likely could have foreclosed his security for a full recovery without any cost falling on the principal or interest of his debt.” Id. at 389 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It has always been the rule in bankruptcy administration that the accrual of simple interest on unsecured claims runs only to the date of bankruptcy, and as held by most courts the same has been true of deficiently secured claims,”
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.