Tindle v. Birkett’s Empirical Analysis
205 U.S. 183 · 1907
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 24 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Davis v. Aetna Acceptance Co. (1934), Brown v. O'Keefe (1937)
15 federal appellate · 24 district · 41 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Crawford v. Burke · Whiteside v. Brawley · Tindle v. . Birkett · Manning and Wife v. Keyes
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““See. 17. A discharge in bankruptcy shall release a bankrupt from all of his provable debts, except such as * * * (2) are judgments in actions for frauds, or obtaining property by false pretenses or false representations, or for willful and' malicious injuries to the person or the property of .another; * * * or (4) were created by his fraud, embezzlement, misappropriation, or defalcation while acting as an officer or in any fiduciary- capacity.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Where a claim is founded upon an open account, or upon contract express or implied, and can be proved under section 63a of the Bankruptcy Act, if the claimant desires to waive the tort and take his place with the other creditors, the claim is one provable under the Act and barred by the discharge.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Nuttall“a fixed liability as evidenced by ... an instrument in writing.”
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.