Nassau Smelting & Refining Works, Ltd. v. Brightwood Bronze Foundry Co.’s Empirical Analysis
265 U.S. 269 · 1924
Citation profile
68 federal appellate · 11 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1983 · most notably Louisville Joint Stock Land Bank v. Radford (1935), Honda v. Clark (1967)
68 federal appellate · 11 district · 8 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
reviewedthe decision below (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Cumberland Glass Manufacturing Co. v. De Witt & Co. · Hecht v. Malley · In re Atlantic Const. Co. · Haley v. Pope
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a settlement of the bankrupt with his creditors in a measure superseding and outside of the bankruptcy proceedings — which originates in a voluntary offer by the bankrupt, and results, in the main, from voluntary acceptance by his creditors; that the respective rights of the bankrupt and the creditors are fixed by the terms of the offer; and that upon the confirmation of the composition they get what they “ bargained for,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Composition is a settlement by the bankrupt with his creditors. In a measure, the composition supersedes, and is outside of, the bankruptcy proceedings. * Where the assets have passed to the trustee pursuant to the adjudication, they axe re-vested in the bankrupt. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“may offer, either before or after adjudication, terms of composition to his creditors,”
1 later decision 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.