Lewis J. Ruskin, Collateral Trustee v. Charles H. Griffiths, Trustee in Reorganization’s Empirical Analysis
269 F.2d 827 · 1959
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2022 · most notably Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific Railroad Company Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific Railroad Company (1986), Ruskin v. Griffiths (1960)
22 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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
Relies on Vanston Bondholders Protective Committee v. Green · General Stores Corp. v. Shlensky · United States Trust Co. v. Zelle · Newburger-Morris Co. v. . Talcott · Finn v. Childs 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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(W)here there is no showing that the creditor entitled to the increased interest caused any unjust delay in the proceedings, it seems to us the opposite of equity to allow the debtor to escape the expressly-bargained-for result of its act.””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Even if we agreed with the court below that a Supreme Court precedent dealing with an obligation for interest on interest falling due because of an equity court’s stay order is equally applicable to a claim based upon a contractual provision for additional simple interest arising because the debtor sought the intervention of the bankruptcy laws, a question we need not now decide, we would still have to distinguish Vanston on what we find was a basic ground of that decision. In Vanston the debtor was insolvent, and in our case it appears the debtor is solvent. In Empire Trust Co. v. Equitable Office Bldg. Corp., 2 Cir., 1948, 167 F.2d 346 , we avoided a resolution of the effect of Vanston upon parties to a reorganization proceeding involving a solvent corporation, but the issue is squarely before us now, and we hold that the Supreme Court did not intend that the principle enunciated by it in Vanston, in a contest between creditors, should be applied to a contest between a debtor’s creditor and its stockholders. [ 269 F.2d at 830 ]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * duplication of services; that certain of the services which were rendered did not require legal action or advice of counsel; that the issues dealt with by counsel were not complex; that approximately half of the recorded time spent by the New York firm was contributed by a junior associate; that during the period for which compensation was being sought for them by the collateral trustee, the Chicago firm was receiving an annual retainer of $15,000 from Ford Hopkins.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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