In re Roth & Appel’s Empirical Analysis

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41 federal appellate · 33 district · 9 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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““(a) Debts oí the bankrupt may be proved and allowed against his estate which are (1) a fixed liability, as evidenced by a judgment or an instrument in writing, absolutely owing at the time of the filing of the petition against him, whether then payable or not, with any interest thereon which would have been recoverable at that date or with a rebate of interest upon such as were not then payable and did not bear interest; * * * (4) founded upon an open account, or upon a contract express or Implied; * * * “(b) Unliquidated claims against the bankrupt may, pursuant to application to the court, be liquidated in such manner as it shall direct, and may thereafter be proved and allowed against his estate.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Sapinsky · In re Mullings Clothing Co.

2. ““We do not think that by the use of the language in section 63a it was intended to permit proof of contingent debts or liabilities or demands the valuation or estimation of which it was substantially impossible to prove.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Hutchcraft

3. “absolutely owing at the time of the filing of the' petition, etc.,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Central Trust Co. v. Chicago Auditorium Ass'n