First National Bank of Chicago v. Chicago Title Trust Company’s Empirical Analysis
198 U.S. 280 · 1905
Citation profile
140 federal appellate · 38 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 254 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2017 · most notably Josiah Coder v. William Arts (1909), Taubel-Scott-Kitzmiller Co. v. Fox (1924)
140 federal appellate · 38 district · 18 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Mansfield Ry Co v. Swan · Mueller v. Nugent · Fred Bardes v. First National Bank of Hawarden Iowa · Louisville Trust Company v. Leonard Comingor · Bryan v. Louis Bernheimer
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 254 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) The United States district courts shall have jurisdiction of all controversies at law and in equity, as distinguished from proceedings in bankruptcy, between trustees as such and adverse claimants concerning the property acquired or claimed by the trustees, in the same manner and to the same extent only as though bankruptcy proceedings had not been instituted and such controversies had been between the bankrupts and such adverse claimants. “(b) Suits by the trustee shall only be brought or prosecuted only in the courts where the bankrupt, whose estate is being administered by such trustee, might have brought or prosecuted them if proceedings in bankruptcy had not been instituted, unless by consent of the proposed defendant, except suits for the recovery of property under section 60 [96], subdivision b * * *; section 67 [107], subdivision e * * * ; and section 70.f[110], subdivision e.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The bankruptcy court is without jurisdiction to determine adverse claims to property not in the possession of the assignee in bankruptcy, by summary proceedings, whether absolute title or only a lien is asserted.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The sale in the circumstances did not change the situation. The proceeds stood in the place of the property, and the order returning the proceeds was equivalent to an order returning the property.””
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.