Bollman v. Tobin’s Empirical Analysis
239 F. 469 · 1917
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 1985
4 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 May v. May · Falter v. Reinhard · In re Lewensohn · In re Van De Mark · In re Mackellar
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The beneficiaries are not the bankrupt, but the creditors. For that reason the law gives to them alone the choice of trustee. The bankrupt has no part in it, because presumably he has no interest in it.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomas v. Grace
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.