Brust v. Sturr’s Empirical Analysis
237 F.2d 135 · 1956
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1993
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Connecticut District Court)
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 108
Relies on United States v. Gilbert Associates, Inc. · United States v. Scovil · Goggin v. Division of Labor Law Enforcement · Libby v. Hopkins · Ivanhoe Building Loan Ass'n of Newark Nj v. Orr
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On the intervention of bankruptcy the Collector was subject only to a contingent liability, viz., to account to the bankrupt for so much of his property as should not be required to satisfy the lien under process of enforcement by distraint.” 237 F.2d 135 , 137. (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Freeman v. Mayer
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.