In re Jacobson & Perrill’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 5 district ·

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The lien oí a bankrupt’s trustee conferred by the Bankruptcy Act as amended in 1930 does not relate back to a period four months prior to ilie institution of bankruptcy proceedings, nor can it antedate the institution of such proceedings.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Virgin · In re Brown Wagon Co.

2. ““A mortgage may be free from fraud in the beginning and may become fraudulent by the conduct and acts of the parties afterwards. Although Goldstein Bros, took this mortgage in good faith, for a present consideration at the time it was taken, their subsequent action, or rather their nonaction and their silence when they should have spoken, must, in my opinion, render this mortgage invalid as against credtitors who sold goods and put them in the bankrupt stock before the record of the mortgage and without the knowledge of the. existence of the same.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Virgin

3. ““This statute has been construed in the Supreme Court of the state of Texas to mean that an unrecorded chattel mortgage shall be void only against lien creditors of the mortgagor, or subsequent purchasers and mortgagees or lienholders in good faith; and, as between the parties to the chattel mortgage and against all ordinary creditors, the record is immaterial.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Roberts