In re Vonhee’s Empirical Analysis
238 F. 422 · 1916
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 1988
1 federal appellate · 1 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 Lockwood v. Exchange Bank · Daniel Holden v. J a Stratton · Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Hall · Ingram v. Wilson · Creditors Collection Ass'n v. Bisbee
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Barring exceptional cases, which are specially provided for, the policy of the act is to fix a four months’ period in which a creditor cannot obtain an advantage over other creditors nor a lien against the debtor’s property. ‘All liens obtained by legal proceedings’ within that period are declared to be null and void. That universal language is not restricted by the later provision that ‘the property affected by the * * * lien shall be released from the same and passed to the trustee as a part of the estate of the bankrupt.’ It is true that title to exempt property does not vest in the trustee and cannot be administered by him for the benefit of the creditors. But it can ‘pass to the trustee as a part of the estate of the bankrupt’ for the purposes named elsewhere in the statute, included in which is the duty to segregate, identify, and appraise what is claimed to be exempt. He must make a report ‘of the articles set off to the bankrupt, with the estimated value of. each article,’ and creditors have twenty days in which to except to the trustee’s report. * * * In other words, the property is not automatically exempted, but must ‘pass to the trustee as a part of the estate’ — not to be administered for the benefit of the creditors, but to enable him to perform the duties incident to setting apart to the bankrupt what, after a hearing, may be found to be exempt. Custody and possession may be necessary to carry out these duties and all levies, seizures, and liens, obtained by l”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Rabb
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