Sutton v. Wentworth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 federal appellate · 4 district ·

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““1. It is wholly irregular for referee, on petition for discharge of bankrupt, opposed on ground that, within four months before filing of petition in bankruptcy, bankrupt made transfer with intent to hinder, delay, and defraud creditors, to take into consideration finding of court in suit by trustee in bankruptcy to set aside the transfer. “2. Referee’s finding that bankrupt made transfer with deliberate intent to defraud creditors, affirmed by 'decree denying composition, was conclusive determination of the fact between the parties to composition proceeding, when called in question in subsequent proceeding for discharge of bankrupt, to which they were likewise parties. “3. Proceeding for bankrupt’s discharge being different cause of action from prior one for composition, decree in the prior pro-' ceeding need not be pleaded to be admissible in evidence in the later proceeding and is there conclusive as to the matters directly in issue and either admitted by the pleadings or actually tried in the prior proceeding between the same parties.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Hillebrand