Meek v. Centre County Banking Co.’s Empirical Analysis
268 U.S. 426 · 1925
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 17 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2014 · most notably Sibbach v. Wilson & Co. (1941), Fidelity Mortgage Investors v. Camelia Builders, Inc. (1976)
37 federal appellate · 17 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Acme Harvester Company v. Beekman Lumber Company · Francis v. McNeal · Schreiber v. Sharpless · George West Co v. Lea · Lazarus v. Prentice
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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A partnership, during the continuation of the partnership business, or after its dissolution and before the final settlement thereof, may be adjudged a bankrupt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“can be no doubt that a partnership maybe adjudged a bankrupt as a distinct legal entity.”
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.