In re Kerner’s Empirical Analysis
250 F. 993 · 1918
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 1970
6 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Gilpin v. Merchants' Nat. Bank · In re Collins · In re Kerner
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where it appears that an alleged bankrupt in the cloak and suit business furnished a financial statement to a creditor in January, which was made as of November of the preceding year, and omitted therefrom spring merchandise and liabilities for the same amount, and there is nothing to show that if the omission had been set forth in the statement the credit would not have been given, an application for the confirmation of a composition offered by the bankrupt, should not be denied because of said omission. “A statement in order to bar a discharge under section 14b of the Bankruptcy Act must be ‘materially’ false. It must not only be intentionally untrue if it is to deprive the bankrupt of his discharge, but it must he untrue as respects a material matter; that is, a matter, if disclosed, would have caused the party who was to act upon the statement to withhold the credit which he extended.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Reed
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.