Myers v. International Trust Co.’s Empirical Analysis
273 U.S. 380 · 1927
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 6 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1986 · most notably Louisville Joint Stock Land Bank v. Radford (1935), Liberty National Bank v. Bear (1928)
45 federal appellate · 6 district · 21 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 Cumberland Glass Manufacturing Co. v. De Witt & Co. · Francis v. McNeal · Davis v. L. L. Cohen & Co. · Liberty Nat Bank of Roanoke Va v. Bear
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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is settled by the decisions of this court in Cumberland Glass Co. v. DeWitt & Co., 237 U. S. 447, 453, 454 (35 Sup. Ct. 636), and Nassau Smelting & Refining Works v. Brightwood Bronze Fdry. Co., 265 U. S. 269, 271, 273, 274 (44 Sup. Ct. 506), that a composition is ‘a settlement of the bankrupt with his creditors’ — in a measure superseding and outside of the bankruptcy proceedings — which originates in a voluntary offer by the bankrupt, and results, in the main, from voluntary acceptance by his creditors; that the respective rights of the bankrupt and the creditors are fixed by the terms of the offer; and that upon the confirmation of the composition they get what they ‘bargained for,’ and no more.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It also results, from the very nature of a composition, that where the terms offered and accepted go merely to the discharge of the maker of a note, its confirmation does not release an indorser from his separate liability for which no 'bargain' was made. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barker v. Ackers
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.