In re Helfand’s Empirical Analysis
23 F.2d 556 · 1928
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1983 · most notably Baker v. Gold Seal Liquors, Inc. (1974), Williams v. Austrian (1947)
15 federal appellate · 3 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 Taubel-Scott-Kitzmiller Co. v. Fox · Board of Trade of City of Chicago v. Johnson · May v. Henderson · Taubel-Scott-Kitzmiller Co. v. Fox · Bryan v. Louis Bernheimer
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““So far as possession can be imputed to such property at all, it is confined to the rights of the bankrupt to enforce the promise. The trustee must proceed as the bankrupt must have proceeded, in a court having competent jurisdiction in such causes.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“can proceed only on the notion that not only the obligation is property of the bankrupt, but that its performance is also such before it has been performed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.