Becker v. Shields’s Empirical Analysis
237 F.2d 622 · 1956
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 1982 · most notably In the Matter of William Albert Talor, AKA William A. Taylor, Bankrupt Public Finance Corporation of Redlands v. William A. Taylor (1975), M. W. O'rieley, Trustee in Bankruptcy of Woerderhoff Shoe Co., Inc. v. Endicott-Johnson Corporation (1961)
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 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
Relies on Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Culbertson · Levy v. Industrial Finance Corp. · Rasmussen v. Gresly · Industrial Bank of Commerce v. Bissell · Gilpin v. Merchants' Nat. Bank
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court shall grant the discharge unless satisfied that the bankrupt has * * * (3) obtained money or property on credit, or obtained an extension or renewal of credit, by making or publishing or causing to be made or published in any manner whatsoever, a materially false statement in writing respecting his financial condition * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bazemore v. Stehling
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.