White v. Stump’s Empirical Analysis
266 U.S. 310 · 1924
Citation profile
114 federal appellate · 40 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 658 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2021 · most notably Myers v. Matley (1943), United States v. Marxen (1939)
114 federal appellate · 40 district · 17 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
reviewedBrandt v. Mathew (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Bailey v. Baker Ice Machine Co. · Acme Harvester Company v. Beekman Lumber Company · Everett v. Judson · In re Youngstrom
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 658 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the law speaks of property which is exempt and of rights to exemptions, it of course refers to some point of time. In our opinion this point of time is the one as of which the general estate passes out of the bankrupt’s control, and with respect to which the status and rights of the bankrupt, the creditors and the trustee in other particulars are fixed.”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Myers v. Matley · Canfield v. Orso““Sec. 6. * * * This Act shall not affect the allowance to bankrupts of the exemptions which are prescribed by * * * the State laws in force at the time of the filing of the petition in the State * * “Sec. 70, sub. a. * * * The trustee of the estate of a bankrupt * * * upon his * * * appointment * * * shall. * * * be vested by operation of law with the title of the bankrupt as of the date of the filing of the petition * * * except insofar as it is to property which is held to be exempt, * * *.” “Sec. 70, sub. c. * * * The trustee, as to all property in the possession or under the control of the bankrupt at the date of bankruptcy * * * shall be deemed vested as of the date of bankruptcy with all the rights, remedies, and powers of a creditor then holding a lien thereon by legal or equitable proceedings, whether or not such a creditor actually exists; and, as to all other property, the trustee shall be deemed vested as of the date of bankruptcy with all the rights, remedies, and powers of a judgment creditor then holding an execution duly returned unsatisfied, whether or not such a creditor actually exists.” 1”
4 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.