Boyd v. Wall’s Empirical Analysis
217 F. 550 · 1914
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 1934
6 federal appellate · 1 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 York Manufacturing Company v. Arthur Cassell J B · Slide & Spur Gold Mines v. Seymour · Pacific State Bank v. Coats · Chilton v. Braiden's Administratrix · Hirlinger v. Boyd
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The amendment was obviously designed to cure what was deemed a defect in this regard, and to confer the power upon the trustee, in the interest of the general creditors, to contest the sufficiency of any claimed lien, pledge, or security that ‘a lien creditor or a judgment creditor might challenge had bankruptcy not intervened.’ Loveland on Bankruptcy (4th Ed.) § 372. There is nothing in -the amendment indicating that its purpose was to prescribe a rule by which the validity or priority of such liens is to be determined or enforced. In that respect the law is left untouched, and the validity and rank of the lien is now to be ascertained by the same applicable principles as obtained prior to the change; and ‘a lien which is Valid under the state law as against the claims of such creditors;-is1 Valid' under the bankrupt law as against a trustee since the amendment as well as before it.’ Id. The amendment, in other words, was designed only to clothe the trustee with the right to question the validity of any lien claimed against the property of the estate which may be defective under the law creating it, notwithstanding the bankrupt might have been estopped to do so. Pacific State Bank v. Coats, 205 F. 618 , 123 C. C. A. 634 , Ann. Cas. 19.13E, 846. It goes no further. It does not affect the character of the trustee’s title as such. That is defined in section 70 of the act, which clothes the trustee only 'with the title of the bankrupt as of the date he was adjudged a bankrupt.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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