Miller v. Sulmeyer’s Empirical Analysis
263 F.2d 513 · 1959
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2010
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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.
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 110
Relies on Moore v. Bay Estate of Sassard & Kimball · Wright v. Union Central Life Insurance · Wolpert v. Gripton · Noyes v. Bank of Italy
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While the brief for appellants [appellants here also] is an able one, this court just cannot get away from the proposition that if the mortgage was subject to attack under California law by any creditor * * * then the bankruptcy act and Moore v. Bay, supra, permit the trustee to demolish the creditor’s security although partially valid under state law * * ( 263 F.2d at 516 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller v. Sulmeyer““While the members of this court might belong to the legislative school that would vote to require trustees to take over rights as the state left them, still it is well settled that bankruptcy statutes can do more.” ( 263 F.2d at 515 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller v. Sulmeyer
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.