In re Samuels’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““That section intended to and provides a searching and summary method for the discovery of hidden assets, not only by the examination of the bankrupt, but of other witnesses. The proceeding it authorizes is meant to assist the trustee in discovering and collecting the assets. * * * The person to be examined cannot object to being sworn and examined on the ground that no issue has been made up for determination; neither can he object that there is no fact in dispute. The simple object is to obtain information as to the bankrupt’s property.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ulmer v. United States

2. ““No doubt these clauses taken together recognize the firm as an entity for certain purposes, the most important of which, after all, is the old rule as to the prior claim of partnership debts on partnership assets and that of individual debts upon the individual estate.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gallagher v. Hannigan