Bramwell v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.’s Empirical Analysis
269 U.S. 483 · 1926
Citation profile
159 federal appellate · 97 district · 95 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 460 later decisions (49 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2024 · most notably Nathanson v. National Labor Relations Board (1952), Price v. United States (1926)
159 federal appellate · 97 district · 95 state decisions — followed in 24 states
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 Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Cohens v. Virginia · Cohens v. Virginia · Sloan Shipyards Corporation v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation · United States v. State of Oklahoma
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 460 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever any person indebted to the United States is insolvent, or whenever the estate of any deceased debtor, in the hands of the executors or administrators, is insufficient to pay all the debts due from the deceased, the debts due to the United States shall be first satisfied; and the priority established shall extend as well to cases in which a debtor, not having sufficient property to pay all his debts, makes a voluntary assignment thereof, or in which the estate and effects of an absconding, concealed, or absent debtor are attached by process of law, as to cases in which an act of bankruptcy is committed. R.S. 3466.” 31 U.S.C. § 191 .”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Every executor, administrator, or assignee, or other person, who pays any debt due by the person or estate from whom or for which he acts, before he satisfies and pays the debts due to the United States from such person or estate, shall become answerable in his own person and estate for the debts so due to the United States, or for so much thereof as may remain due and unpaid.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The resolution authorized and was followed by the handing over of the possession and control of all the bank’s property to be converted into money to pay the bank’s debts. Tbe act of tbe directors made the hank’s insolvency notorious. The established rule of liberal construction requires that the priority act be applied having regard to the public good it was intended to advance. Its application is not to be narrowly restricted to the eases within the literal and technical meaning of the words used. . The things done in this case are not different in their substance from the things specified as the ways in whieh_ipsolveney is required to be made manifest. It must be held that within the meaning of the priority act, the bank made a voluntary assignment of its property; and that, because of the bank’s insolvency, a trustee was put in charge of its property under a state law within the meaning of the Bankruptcy Act [11 USCA].””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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