Wisconsin Builders Supply Co. v. Prentice’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 2004
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Skinner v. State of Oklahoma Williamson · Sturges v. Crowninshield · Stellwagen v. Clum · Straton v. New · Ogden v. Saunders
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) The courts of the United States hereinbefore defined as courts of bánkruptey . . . are invested . . . with such jurisdiction at law and in equity as will enable them ... to “(21) Require receivers or trustees appointed in proceedings not under this title, assignees for the benefit of creditors, and agents authorized to take possession of or to liquidate a person’s property to deliver the property in their possession or under their control to the receiver or trustee appointed under this title . . . and in all such cases to account to the court for the disposition by them of the property of such bankrupt or creditor: Provided, however, that such delivery shall not be required, except in proceedings under section 205 and chapter 10 and 12 of this title, if the receiver or trustee was appointed, the assignment was made, or the agent was authorized more than four months prior to the date of bankruptcy. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““(1) The court within the proper county may sequestrate the property of a debtor and appoint a receiver therefor: “(a) When an execution against a judgment debtor is returned unsatisfied in whole or in part. “(b) When a corporation has been dissolved or is insolvent or is in imminent danger of insolvency or has forfeited its corporate rights.””
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.