In Re Sloss’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2004
2 federal appellate · 1 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.
Relationships
Relies on Wright v. Union Central Life Insurance · Royal Indemnity Co. v. Cooper · Lockhart v. Edel · In re Old Algiers, Inc. · Bentley M. McMullin v. Frederick H. Todd
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Three Courts of Appeal, ours, the First, and the Fourth Circuits, have held that so long as the rights of parties have not become fixed, the law which governs is that which is in effect at the time the application for a discharge is passed upon, and not that which was in force when the petition in bankruptcy was filed. Id. at 137 .”
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.