Burlingham v. Crouse’s Empirical Analysis
228 U.S. 459 · 1913
Citation profile
85 federal appellate · 65 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 391 later decisions (29 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Kokoszka v. Belford (1974), United States v. Bess (1958)
85 federal appellate · 65 district · 37 state decisions — followed in 15 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
reviewedBurlingham v. Crouse (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Daniel Holden v. J a Stratton · Central Nat Bank v. Hume Hume · Warnock v. Davis · Security Warehousing Co. v. Hand
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 391 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[ilt is the twofold purpose of the Bankruptcy Act to convert the estate of the bankrupt into cash and distribute it among creditors and then to give the bankrupt a fresh start with such exemptions and rights as the statute left untouched.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cohen v. Samuels · Malone v. Cohn“That when any bankrupt shall have any insurance policy, which has a cash surrender value payable to himself, his estate, or personal representatives, he may, within thirty days after the cash surrender value has been ascertained and stated to the trustee by the company issuing the same, pay or secure to the trustee the sum so ascertained and stated, and continue to hold, own, and carry such policy free from the claims of the creditors participating in the distribution of his estate under the bankruptcy proceedings; otherwise the policy shall pass to the trustee as assets[.]”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It appears that the policies had a cash surrender value, which at the time when the trustees qualified was $15,370’, or the amount of the loan of the Equitable Society upon the policies. It is therefore apparent that on the day when the petition, was filed, as well as the day of the adjudication in bankruptcy, the cash surrender value would not have exceeded the loan and lien of the society upon the policies. The Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that, under the circumstances, the policies did not pass to the trustees as assets, and therefore the action which had been begun to set aside the transfer to Crouse, as a preference within the Bankruptcy Act, could not be maintained.””
1 later decision 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.