In re Bacon’s Empirical Analysis
210 F. 129 · 1913
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 1968
7 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 Mueller v. Nugent · Fred Bardes v. First National Bank of Hawarden Iowa · Louisville Trust Company v. Leonard Comingor · Whitney v. Wenman · Eyster v. Gaff
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under both the civil and the common law it is necessary to the validity of a pledge that the possession of the pledged property be delivered to the pledgee or to someone for him, and delivery is the very essence of the contract. “While delivery may be made to a third person to hold for the pledgee, such person must know of the agreement and accept the obligation it imposes.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““If it be ascertained by proper inquiry that a real adverse claim exists, no matter how iil supported it may appear to bo, a court of bankruptcy cannot summarily decide as to the validity of the claim.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.