In re Gulick’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 4 district ·

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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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Officers of a corporation, where they get-control, with an attendant fiduciary obligation, of property of the corporation, are ‘officers’ within Bankruptcy Act July 1, 1898, c. 541, § 17, subd. 4, 30 Stat. 551 , * * * exempting from discharge debts created by misappropriation or defalcation while-acting as an ‘officer,’ so that a continuance of a suit in a state court against corporate officers for the value of corporate property misappropriated by them will not be stayed on the application of the officers who had been adjudicated oankrupt.””

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

2. ““Certainly it is undesirable to look too scrupulously for exceptions in the natural meaning of the clause. There is no reason to strain the words, so as to protect those who avowedly are guilty of fraud, embezzlement, misappropriation, or defalcation.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Bloemecke