Colman Co. v. Withoft’s Empirical Analysis
195 F. 250 · 1912
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1975 · most notably Williams v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. (1915), Central Trust Co. v. Chicago Auditorium Ass'n (1916)
16 federal appellate · 6 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 Horace Dunbar v. Lottie E Dunbar · In re Roth & Appel · Watson v. Merrill · In re Todd · In re Eidemiller
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The date of filing the petition in bankruptcy is intended to mark the line of separation between debts that are provable and those that are not provable against the bankrupt’s estate. Those that are not provable remain subsisting obligations of the bankrupt, and he is not released therefrom by his discharge. * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is held by the decided weight of authority that subdivisions 1 and 4 of section (13a of the Bankruptcy Act are in pari materia, and that the words ‘absolutely owing at 1he time of the filing of the petition against him’ are to he read into subdivision 4.””
2 later decisions 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.