Lesser v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
236 U.S. 70 · 1915
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 14 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 195 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Pepper v. Litton (1939), Katchen v. Landy (1966)
67 federal appellate · 14 district · 16 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
Relies on Rector v. City Deposit Bank Co. · Lesser v. Gray · In re Inman & Co.
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 195 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A bankruptcy court in which an estate is being administered has full power to inquire into the validity of any alleged debt or obligation of the bankrupt upon which a demand or claim against the estate is based. This is essential to the performance of the duties imposed upon it. (emphasis supplied).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If, as both the bankruptcy and state courts concluded, the contract was terminated by the involuntary bankruptcy proceeding, no legal injury resulted. If, on the other hand, that view of the law was erroneous, then there was a breach and defendant Gray became liable for any resulting damage; but he was released therefrom by his discharge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A disallowed claim and a non-provable debt are not identical things; and a failure accurately to observe the distinction has led to confusion in argument.”
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.