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Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently September 1997 · most notably Martin First Federated Life Insurance Co v. A Martin, In the Matter of Gerald A. Mascolo, Bankrupt (1974)
4 federal appellate · 5 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 Baumgartner v. United States · Galena Oaks Corporation v. Frank Scofield, Collector of Internal Revenue · Nathan D. Goldberg and S. E. Wood, Jr. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue · McNish v. American Brass Co. · Lehmann v. Acheson
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘[tjhere must be an actual fraudulent intent on the part of the bankrupt to hinder, delay or defraud his creditors and constructive intent is not sufficient; the reasons for denying a discharge to a bankrupt must be real and substantial, not merely technical and conjectual; speculation cannot be substituted for proof and the requirement is for probative facts capable of supporting, with reason, the conclusions of the trier of facts;”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Section 14c(4) of the Act reads as follows: “c. The court shall grant the discharge unless satisfied that the bankrupt has (1) ... (2) ... (3) ... (4) at any time subsequent to the first day of the twelve months immediately preceding the filing of the petition in bankruptcy, transferred, removed, destroyed or concealed, or permitted to be removed, destroyed, or concealed any of his property, with intent to hinder, delay, or defraud his creditors; ...” 11 U.S.C. § 32 (c)(4)”
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.