John O. England, Trustee of the Estate of Daniel E. Sanderson, Bankrupt v. Daniel E. Sanderson, Bankrupt’s Empirical Analysis
236 F.2d 641 · 1956
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 1996 · most notably Seltzer v. Cochrane (1996), Matter of Pettit (1985)
12 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 110
Relies on Lockwood v. Exchange Bank · Moore v. Bay Estate of Sassard & Kimball · On Lee v. United States · Rauer's Collection Co. v. Higgins · Constance v. Harvey
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To relegate the pre-existing creditors to the state courts is to ignore their rights in the $7500 exemption and place them in a position where one creditor, because of prompt action, might get all the $5000 difference in the hands of the bankrupt to the exclusion of all other pre-existing creditors.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bassin v. Stopher · In Re Bassin“no invasion of exempt property under California law, because the pre-existing creditors have rights against the bankrupt estate in excess of $7500, and the trustee asserts their rights for the benefit of all the creditors.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Bassin · Bassin v. H Stopher“This Act shall not affect the allowance to bankrupts of the exemptions which are prescribed by the . . . State laws in force at the time of the filing of the petition.”
2 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.