Guarantee Title Trust Company v. Title Guaranty & Surety Company’s Empirical Analysis
224 U.S. 152 · 1912
Citation profile
128 federal appellate · 43 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 311 later decisions (51 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably Will v. Michigan Department of State Police (1989), United States v. United Mine Workers of America (1947)
128 federal appellate · 43 district · 37 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedTitle Guaranty & Surety Co. v. Guarantee Title & Trust Co. (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Dollar Savings Bank v. United States · Lewis Trustee v. United States · United States v. Herron · Rodford v. Craig
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 311 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * The act [Bankruptcy Act of 1898] takes into consideration, we think, the whole range of indebtedness of the bankrupt — national, state and individual, and assigns the order of payment.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The requirement of the present law [Bankruptcy Act of 1898, § 64, sub. a, 30 Stat. 563] is a wide departure from the Act of 1867 [14 Stat. 530, c. 176], and specifically obliges the trustee to pay all taxes legally due and owing, without distinction between the United States and the State, county, district or municipality.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Whenever any person indebted to the United States is insolvent, or whenever the estate of any deceased debtor, in the hands of the executors or administrators, is insufficient to pay all the debts due from the deceased, the debts due to the United States shall be first satisfied; and the priority hereby established shall extend as well to-cases in which a debtor, not having sufficient property to pay all his debts, makes a voluntary assignment thereof, or in which the estate and effects of an absconding, concealed, or absent debtor are attached by process of law, as to cases in which an act of bankruptcy is committed.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.