Central Trust Company of Illinois v. Chicago Auditorium Association No 162 Chicago Auditorium Association’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 6 district · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 135 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably 407 East 61st Garage, Inc. v. Savoy Fifth Avenue Corp. (1968), Caminetti v. Pacific Mutual Life Insurance (1943)
12 federal appellate · 6 district · 80 state decisions — followed in 26 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Williams v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Roehm v. Horst · Horace Dunbar v. Lottie E Dunbar · Zavelo v. Reeves · Sparhawk v. Yerkes
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 135 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * We conclude that proceedings, whether voluntary or involuntary, resulting in an adjudication of bankruptcy, are the equivalent of an anticipatory breach of an executory agreement, within the doctrine of Roehm v. Horst, supra.” ( 178 U.S. 1 , 20 S.Ct. 780 , 44 L.Ed. 953 ).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]here a party bound by an executory contract repudiates his obligations or disables himself from performing them before the time for performance, the promisee has the option to treat the contract as ended”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In short, it must be deemed an implied term of every contract that the promisor will not permit himself, through insolvency or acts of bankruptcy, to be disabled from making performance.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Conway v. White · In Re Couture
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.