Crawford v. Burke’s Empirical Analysis
195 U.S. 176 · 1904
Citation profile
98 federal appellate · 63 district · 106 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 433 later decisions (35 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2020 · most notably Davis v. Aetna Acceptance Co. (1934), Williams v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. (1915)
98 federal appellate · 63 district · 106 state decisions — followed in 23 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.
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Lee · Tinker v. Colwell · Oscanyan v. Arms Co. · Inhabitants of the Township of Montclair County of Essex v. Ramsdell · National Bank v. Insurance Co.
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 433 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““a. A discharge in bankruptcy shall release a bankrup’t from all of his provable debts, except such as (1) are due as a tax levied by the United States, the state, county, district, or municipality in which he resides.””
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Section 63a provides for debts which may be proved, which, among others, are (1) ‘a fixed liability, as evidenced by a judgment or an instrument in writing, absolutely owing at the time of the filing of the petition against him, whether then payable or not, with any interest thereon which would have been recoverable at that date or with a rebate of interest on such as were not then payable and did not bear interest;’ (4) ‘founded upon an open account, or upon a contract express or implied.’ In section 63b provision is made for unliquidated claims against the bánkrupt, which may be liquidated upon application to the court in such manner as it shall direct, and may thereafter be proved and allowed against his estate. This paragraph b, however, adds nothing to the class of debts which might be proved under paragraph a of the same section. Its purpose is to permit an unliquidated claim, coming within the provisions of section 63a, to be liquidated as the court shall direct.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““b Unliquidated claims against the bankrupt may, pursuant to application to the court, be liquidated in such manner as it shall direct, and may thereafter be proved and allowed against his estate.””
4 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.