Schall v. Camors’s Empirical Analysis
251 U.S. 239 · 1920
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 26 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 221 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2023 · most notably Manhattan Properties, Inc. v. Irving Trust Co. (1934), Davis v. Pringle (1925)
72 federal appellate · 26 district · 38 state decisions — followed in 14 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
reviewedSchall v. Camors (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Knowlton v. Moore · Tinker v. Colwell · Dean v. Davis · Central Trust Co. v. Chicago Auditorium Ass'n · Crawford v. Burke
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 221 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The cases comprised in . .. [an implied contract] are those where the bankrupt by means of a tort or wrongful act has obtained something of value for which an equivalent price should be paid and on account of which the law will imply a promise to pay. In such instances there is, of course, no real contract on the part of the wrongdoer to pay, but there is a fictitious contract forced on him by the law to pay over the amount of his unjust enrichment.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The net proceeds of the partnership property shall be appropriated to the payment of the partnership debts, and the net proceeds of the individual estate of each partner to the payment of his individual debts. Should aúy surplus remain of the property of any partner after paying his individual debts, sueh surplus shall be added to the partnership assets and be applied to the payment of the partnership debts. Should any surplus of the partnership property remain after paying the partnership debts, such surplus shall be added to the assets of the individual partners in the proportion of their respective interests in the partnership.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Historically, bankruptcy laws, both in England and in this country, have dealt primarily and particularly with the concerns of traders. Our earlier bankruptcy acts invariably have been regarded as excluding from consideration unliquidated claims arising purely ex delicto.””
2 later decisions 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.