William Watts David Sachs’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 15 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2017 · most notably Taubel-Scott-Kitzmiller Co. v. Fox (1924), Birkett v. Columbia Bank (1904)
7 federal appellate · 15 district · 50 state decisions — followed in 25 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.
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The bankruptcy law is paramount, and the jurisdiction of the Federal courts in bankruptcy, when properly invoked, in the administration of the affairs of insolvent persons and corporations, is essentially exclusive.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doyle-Kidd Dry Goods Co. v. Sadler-Lusk Trading Co. · In Re State of Missouri State of Missouri Ex Rel John G. Runyan, as Director of the Missouri Department of Agriculture State of Missouri Ex Rel Missouri Department of Agriculture John G. Runyan, as Receiver of Certain Grain Warehouses State of Missouri Ex Rel John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the State of Missouri and James Boillot, Acting Director of the Missouri Department of Agriculture v. U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the E. D. Of Arkansas and the Hon. Charles W. Baker, and Robert P. Lindsey, as Trustee, Intervenor-Respondents, and United States of America, Intervenor. In Re State of Missouri State of Missouri Ex Rel John G. Runyan, as Director of the Missouri Department of Agriculture State of Missouri Ex Rel Missouri Department of Agriculture John G. Runyan, as Receiver of Certain Grain Warehouses State of Missouri Ex Rel John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the State of Missouri and James Boillot, Acting Director of the Missouri Department of Agriculture v. U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the E. D. Of Arkansas and the Hon. Charles W. Baker, and Robert P. Lindsey, as Trustee, Intervenor-Appellees, and United States of America, Intervenor““It has been already assumed that the bankruptcy proceedings operated to suspend the further administration of the insolvent’s estate in the state court, but it remained for the state court to transfer the assets, settle the accounts of its receiver, and close its connection with the matter.””
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.