Cumberland Glass Manufacturing Co. v. De Witt & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
237 U.S. 447 · 1915
Citation profile
160 federal appellate · 41 district · 103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 522 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2020 · most notably Baker v. Gold Seal Liquors, Inc. (1974), Chaves v. Johnson (1985)
160 federal appellate · 41 district · 103 state decisions — followed in 23 states
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 New York County National Bank v. Massey · Deposit Bank of Frankfort v. Board of Councilmen of the City of Frankfort · Sawyer v. Hoag · Libby v. Hopkins
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 522 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one debt shall be set off against the other, and the balance only shall be allowed or paid.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“While the operation of this privilege of setoff has the effect to pay one creditor more than another, it is a provision based upon the generally recognized right of mutual debtors which has been enacted as part of the Bankruptcy Act, and when relied upon should be enforced by the court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The matter [of setoff] is placed within the control of the bankruptcy court, which exercises its discretion in these cases on the general principles of equity.”
4 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.