Fred Bardes v. First National Bank of Hawarden Iowa’s Empirical Analysis
178 U.S. 524 · 1900
Citation profile
335 federal appellate · 307 district · 82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 909 later decisions (46 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2013 · most notably Local Loan Co. v. Hunt (1934), Securities & Exchange Commission v. United States Realty & Improvement Co. (1940)
335 federal appellate · 307 district · 82 state decisions — followed in 27 states
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 Peck v. Jenness · Shoshone Mining Co. v. Rutter · Eyster v. Gaff · Matteson v. Dent
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 909 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) Suits by the trustee shall only be brought or prosecuted in the courts where the bankrupt ... might have brought or prosecuted them if proceedings in bankruptcy had not been instituted, unless by consent of the proposed defendant.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kelley v. Gill · Collett v. Adams““Cause the estates of bankrupts to be collected, reduced to money, and distributed, and determine controversies in relation thereto, except as herein otherwise provided * * *.” 11 U.S.C.A. § 11 , sub. a(7). (Emphasis added.)”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Proceedings in bankruptcy generally are in the nature of proceedings in equity; and the words ‘at law,’ in the opening sentence conferring on the courts of bankruptcy 'such jurisdiction, at law and in equity, as will enable them to exercise original jurisdiction in bankruptcy proceedings,’ may have been inserted to meet clause 4, authorizing the trial and punishment of offenses, the jurisdiction over which must necessarily ho at law, and not in equity.” Bardes v. Bank, 178 U. S. 535 , 20 Sup. Ct. 1000 , 44 L. Ed. 1175 .”
6 later decisions 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.