Spring Coal Co. v. Keech’s Empirical Analysis
239 F. 48 · 1916
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2012
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 Thomas v. Western Car Co. · Cook Co Nat Bank v. United States · American Iron Steel Manufacturing Company v. Seaboard Air Line Railway · Chemical Nat. Bank v. Armstrong · Richmond & I. Const. Co. v. Richmond, N., I. & B. R.
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.
““But where there are debts of different rank or dignity, this general rule does not apply. Mr. Justice Lamar, in the case of the American Iron Co. v. Seaboard Air Line Railway, 233 U. S. 261 , 34 S. Ct. 502 , 58 L. Ed. 949 , said: “ ‘Principal as well as interest, accruing during a receivership, is paid on debts of the highest dignity, even though what remains is not sufficient to pay claims of a lower rank in full’ — citing Central Co. v. Condon, 67 F. 84 , 14 C. C. A. 314 ; Richmond v. Richmond Railroad Co., 68 F. 105 , 15 C. C. A. 289 , 34 L. R. A. 625 ; First National Bank v. Ewing, 103 F. 168 , 43 C. C. A. 150 . “In the case of Central Trust Co. v. Condon, 67 F. 84 , 14 C. C. A. 314 , Circuit Judge Taft, in delivering the opinion of the court, said: “ <* * * jn tjie distribution of the proceeds of a common security between liens of different priorities, we know of no principle by which interest can be stopped on the amount of the superior lien until its satisfaction. As between the bondholders and the lienholders, the lienholders are entitled to interest to the day of payment.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Courts of equity no more than courts of law have power to make contracts for persons or corporations, nor can courts substitute their judgment for the judgment of the parties to a contract.”
1 later decision 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.