Kravitz’s Empirical Analysis

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6 district · 1 state decisions

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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “... a creditor who has acquired a lien on the property involved by attachment, levy or the like and includes ... a trustee in bankruptcy from the date of the filing of the petition.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Funding Systems Asset Management Corp. v. Chemical Business Credit Corp. (In Re Funding Systems Asset Management Corp.) · Federal's Inc Matsushita Electric Corporation of America

2. “the ideal creditor, irreproachable and without notice, armed cap-a-pie with every right and power which is conferred by the law of the state upon its most favored creditor who has acquired a lien by legal or equitable proceedings.” In re Kravitz, 278 F.2d 820, 822 (3d Cir.1960), quoting In re Waynesboro Motor Co., 60 F.2d 668, 669 (S.D.Miss.1932). In particular, § 544(a)(2) gives the trustee”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Schneiderman

3. ““It is perfectly clear that, while Section 70, sub c of the Bankruptcy Act makes the trustee an ideal lien creditor, what such a lien creditor gets is deter mined by the law of the state involved, here, Pennsylvania.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lake Erie Leasing, Inc. v. Bundy (In Re Bundy)