Kelley v. Gill’s Empirical Analysis
245 U.S. 116 · 1917
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 13 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1981 · most notably Matthews v. Rodgers (1932), Riehle v. Margolies (1929)
48 federal appellate · 13 district · 8 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedKelley v. Aarons
Relationships
Relies on Mueller v. Nugent · Fred Bardes v. First National Bank of Hawarden Iowa · Whitney v. Wenman · White v. Ewing
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Section 2, clause 7, confers upon the court of bankruptcy jurisdiction to ‘cause the estates of bankrupts to be collected, reduced to money and distributed, and determine controversies in relation thereto, except as herein otherwise provided.’ But § 23-b prohibits the trustee (with exceptions not here applicable) from prosecuting, without the consent of the proposed defendant, a suit in a court other than that in which the bankrupt might have brought it, had bankruptcy not intervened.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Austrian““ * * and such trustees, as to all property in the custody or coming into the custody of the bankruptcy court, shall be deemed vested with all the rights, remedies, and powers of a creditor holding a lien by legal or equitable proceedings thereon; and also, as to all property not in the custody of the bankruptcy court, shall be deemed vested with all the rights, remedies, and powers of a judgment creditor holding an execution duly returned unsatisfied- # *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Crocker v. Gentry““It is well established that summary jurisdiction does not exist to enforce a chose in action against a debtor since such an action involves no property in the actual or constructive possession of the bankruptcy court. It is likewise well settled that summary jurisdiction does not extend to actions where indemnification is sought rather than restitution.” Id. at 86 .”
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.