Sessler v. Nemcof’s Empirical Analysis
183 F. 656 · 1910
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1940
2 district ·
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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the trustee has an adequate remedy at law, a bill in equity cannot be maintained in this or in any other court. Whatever equitable jurisdiction may have been conferred upon the District Court by the Bankruptcy Act * * * and the amendment thereto, * * * it is confined to controversies relating to a bankrupt estate. Within this limited area whether or not a bill in equity may be maintained -must be tested by the ordinary rules that govern bills before any other tribunal, and perhaps the most familiar test is to inquire whether the plaintiff has an adequate remedy at law. A decree may be entered dismissing the bill.””
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.