City of Richmond v. Bird’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

55 federal appellate · 44 district · 14 state decisions

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

1. ““104. Debts which have priority “(a) The debts to have priority, in advance of the payment of dividends to creditors, and to be paid in full out of bankrupt estates, and the order of payment, shall be (1) * * * (expenses of administration); (2) wages * * * not to exceed $600 to each claimant, which have been earned within three months before the date of the commencement of the proceeding, due to workmen, servants, clerks, or traveling or city salesmen on salary or commission basis, whole or part time, whether or not selling exclusively for the bankrupt; * * * (8) where the confirmation of an arrangement or wage-earner plan or the bankrupt’s discharge has been refused, revoked, or set aside upon the objection and through the efforts and at the cost and expense of one or more creditors, or, where through the efforts and at the cost and expense of one or more creditors, evidence shall have been adduced resulting in the conviction of any person of an offense under chapter 9 of Title 18, the reasonable costs and expenses of such creditors in obtaining such refusal, revocation, or setting aside, or in adducing such evidence; (4) taxes legally due and owing by the bankrupt to the United States or any State or any subdivision thereof: * * * and (5) debts owing to any person, including the United States, who by the laws of the United States is entitled to priority, and rent owing to a landlord who is entitled to priority by applicable State law: Provided, however, That such priority f”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Green River Jockey Club · In re A. E. Fountain, Inc.

2. ““Section 64a directs that taxes be paid in advance of dividends to creditors; and ‘dividend’ as commonly used throughout the act means partial payment to general creditors.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re West Coast Rubber Corp. · United States v. Oliver

3. “[A]nd it appears that the city of Peters-burg had a right of distress against the property assessed with taxes in its favor, which the city might have exercised before the taxes were returned delinquent, or the property upon which they were assessed had passed into the hands of subsequent purchasers, and thereby secured a lien therefor, but these rights were never exercised.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. City of Martinsville v. Tultex Corp. (In Re Tultex Corp.)