Taylor v. Voss’s Empirical Analysis
271 U.S. 176 · 1926
Citation profile
271 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 370 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2014 · most notably Katchen v. Landy (1966), Katchen v. Landy (1966)
271 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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
reviewedVoss v. Taylor (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Cohens v. Virginia · Cohens v. Virginia · Stellwagen v. Clum · Josiah Coder v. William Arts · Taubel-Scott-Kitzmiller Co. v. Fox
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 370 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not the overall liquidation or reorganization, but rather an individual 'matter[ ] of an administrative character ... presented in the ordinary course of the administration of the bankrupt's estate.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. United Kingdom Mutual Steamship Assurance Association v. Arthur L. Liman · A.H. Robins Company, Incorporated v. Anna Piccinin, and Nancy Campbell, Kathryn Conrad, Jeanette Dicharry, Vernon Dicharry, Luisa Mosa, Stella J. Camp, John H. Camp, Helen Barnett, Michael Barnett, and Edna Lindsey Ruminiski, Aetna Casualty and Surety Company, Intervenor/appellee. In Re A.H. Robins Company, Incorporated, Debtor. A.H. Robins Company, Incorporated v. Committee Representatives of Dalkon Shield Aetna Casualty and Surety Company, Intervenor/appellee. In Re A.H. Robins Company, Incorporated, Debtor. A.H. Robins Company, Incorporated v. Kathryn Conrad, Luisa and Jack Mosa, in Re A.H. Robins Company, Inc., Debtor. A.H. Robins Company, Inc. v. Anna Piccinin“a controversy arising in a bankruptcy proceeding”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(b) The several Circuit Courts of Appeal and the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia shall have jurisdiction in equity, either interlocutory or final, to superintend and revise in matter of law (and in matter of law and fact the matters specified in section 25) the proceedings of the several inferior courts of bankruptcy within their jurisdiction. Such power shall be exercised by appeal and in the form and manner of an appeal, except in the cases mentioned in said section 25 to be allowed in the discretion of the appellate court.””
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.