Barnes v. Hirsch’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
14 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Shearson Lehman Hutton, Inc. v. Wagoner (1991), Wight v. BankAmerica Corp. (2000)
14 federal appellate ·
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 Butterworth v. O'Brien · Monroe v. Bushnell
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A trustee in bankruptcy has only such title and power as given by the Bankruptcy Act. He is a creature of that statute. No serious assertion is made here that [the assigned] claims ... were property of the bankrupt. They were not assets which passed to the trustee because they belonged to the bankrupt. The [only] causes of action which the trustee has by reason of the Bankruptcy Act, other than such as were property of the bankrupt, are causes of action to recover or follow assets. ... We are not concerned with a discussion of what might have been put into the National Bankruptcy Act; our concern is only with what it does contain.”
2 later decisions 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.