Feltinton v. Grace’s Empirical Analysis
263 F.2d 287 · 1959
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 1983
6 federal appellate · 2 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 Paul Ginsburg v. John D. Black, 1 · In re Lewensohn · Bollman v. Tobin · In re Hale Desk Co.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The choice by a bankrupt’s creditors of a trustee, although subject to the approval of the court, should be approved unless good reason exists for disapproving. If any question exists in the court’s mind as to whether the choice of the creditors should be approved, it may hold a hearing for that purpose, * *”
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.