Prudence-Bonds Corp. v. City Bank Farmers Trust Co.’s Empirical Analysis
186 F.2d 525 · 1951
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 1999
7 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 501
Relies on North American Car Corp. v. Peerless Weighing & Vending Machine Corp. · Country Life Apartments, Inc. v. Buckley · In re Flatbush Ave.-Nevins St. Corp. · Clinton Trust Co. v. John H. Elliott Leather Co. · President & Directors of Manhattan Co. v. Kelby
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * the court may never under the guise of `alteration' or `modification' substitute an entirely new `plan' in place of the original; although what is a line between a substitute and an `alteration' or a `modification' is necessarily left at large. * * * The question is one of discretion, though of a discretion which should be sparingly exercised, * * * unless the circumstances peremptorily demand it. * * * We cannot deny that the view which we now take may lead to abuse; it is often exceedingly difficult for a bankruptcy court to resist the importunities, usually unopposed, of those who wish to keep the `revived debtor' indefinitely beneath its aegis; and our review of a discretion, which we may think to have been unwisely exercised, is not a very effective remedy. We can do no more than declare, for whatever weight it may have, that we deem the long delay which so often occurs between the order of `confirmation' and the `final order' a major abuse, and that a judge who superintends such a proceeding should feel himself charged with an affirmative duty to insist upon its early conclusion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“superintend and enforce the execution of the 'plan'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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