Knapp v. Milwaukee Trust Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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68 federal appellate · 21 district · 5 state decisions

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

1. ““Sec. 67a. Claims which for want of record or for other reasons would not have been valid liens as against the claims of the creditors of the bankrupt shall not be liens against his estate.” “Sec. 1 (9). ‘Creditor’ shall include any one who owns a demand or claim provable in bankruptcy. * * * ” “Sec. 67d. Liens given or accepted in good faith and not in contemplation of or in fraud upon this act, and for a present consideration, which have been recorded according to daw, if record thereof was necessary in order to impart notice, shall not be affected by this act.” “Sec. 70a. The trustee of the estate of a bankrupt, upon his appointment and qualification, ⅜ * * shall * * * be vested by operation of law with the title of the bankrupt, as of the date he was adjudged a bankrupt, except in so far as it is to property which is exempt, to all * * * (5) property which prior to the filing of the petition he could by any means have transferred or which might have been levied upon and sold under judicial process against him.””

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

2. “‘■The principle was recognized that the trustee in bankruptcy stands in the shoes of the bankrupt, and that the property in his hands is subject to the equities impressed upon it while in the hands of the bankrupt.” 216 U. S. 557 , 30 Sup. Ct. 415 , 54 L. Ed. 610 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lovell v. Isidore Newman & Son