Liberty National Bank v. Bear’s Empirical Analysis
276 U.S. 215 · 1928
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 3 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1996 · most notably Aboussie Bros. Construction Co. v. United Missouri Bank of Kirkwood (In Re Aboussie Bros. Construction Co.) (1981), Old Orchard Investment Co. v. A.D.I. Distributors, Inc. (In Re Old Orchard Investment Co.) (1983)
39 federal appellate · 3 district · 12 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
reviewedLiberty Nat. Bank of Roanoke v. Bear (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Francis v. McNeal · Liberty Nat Bank of Roanoke Va v. Bear · United States v. O a Johnson · Myers v. International Trust 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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'That all levies, judgments, attachments, or other liens, obtained through legal proceedings against a person who is insolvent, at any time within four months prior to the filing of a petition in bankruptcy against him, shall be deemed null and void in case he is adjudged a bankrupt, and the property affected by the . . . lien shall be deemed wholly discharged and released from the same, and shall pass to the trustee as a part of the estate of the bankrupt. . . .'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'A lien created by or obtained in or pursuant to any suit . . . which was begun against a person within four months before the filing of a petition in bankruptcy by or against such person shall be dissolved by the adjudication of such person to be a bankrupt if . . . it appears that said lien was obtained and permitted while the defendant was insolvent and that its existence and enforcement will work a preference. . . .'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a partnership may be adjudged a bankrupt as a separate entity without reference to the bankruptcy of the partners as individuals.”
2 later decisions 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.