Everett v. Judson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

129 federal appellate · 77 district · 58 state decisions

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

1. “We think that the purpose of the law was to fix the line of cleavage with reference to the condition of the bankrupt estate as of the time at which the petition was filed, and that the property which vests in the trustee at the time of adjudication is that which the bankrupt owned at the time of the filing of the petition.”

   9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. White v. Stump · Board of Commerce v. Security Trust Co.

2. ““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
   e.g. Coppard v. Bankers' Life Co.

3. “at the time of the filing of the petition,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. White v. Stump