Galbraith v. Vallely’s Empirical Analysis
256 U.S. 46 · 1921
Citation profile
98 federal appellate · 19 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 214 later decisions (30 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1983 · most notably Harrison v. Chamberlin (1926), Cline v. Kaplan (1944)
98 federal appellate · 19 district · 7 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
reviewedGalbraith v. Vallely (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Louisville Trust Company v. Leonard Comingor · Randolph v. Scruggs · Byron Babbitt v. Howard Dutcher T · Rathman v. Booth
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 214 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The principle of the Comingor Case has never been departed from in this court. It establishes the right of an assignee for the benefit of creditors, to the extent that he asserts rights to expenses incurred and compensation earned under an assignment in good faith before the bankruptcy proceedings, to have the merits of his claim determined in a judicial proceeding suitable to that purpose, and not by summary proceedings where punishment for contempt is the means of enforcing the order. We see no occasion to depart from this practice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pender v. Clark“has been repeatedly cited as determinative of the law and practice in similar cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cline v. Kaplan“in suits of the ordinary character, with the rights and remedies incident thereto.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cline v. Kaplan
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.