Isaacs v. Hobbs Tie & Timber Co.’s Empirical Analysis
282 U.S. 734 · 1931
Citation profile
416 federal appellate · 115 district · 101 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,084 later decisions (68 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2018 · most notably Pepper v. Litton (1939), Thompson v. Magnolia Petroleum Co. (1940)
416 federal appellate · 115 district · 101 state decisions — followed in 27 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 Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Mueller v. Nugent · Wabash Railroad Company v. Adelbert College of the Western Reserve University · Harkin v. Brundage · Murphy v. John Hofman Co.
Cited together with Straton v. New · Ex parte Baldwin · Gross v. Irving Trust Co. · Thompson v. Magnolia Petroleum Co. · Murphy v. John Hofman 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 1,084 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“owned or possessed by the bankrupt rests in the bankruptcy trustee as of the date of the filing of the petition in bankruptcy.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““After the bankruptcy court has acquired jurisdiction of the estate of the bankrupt and the referee therein has entered an order requiring sale, by the trustee, of all of the property of the bankrupt but before the trustee has taken any steps to sell land (part of such estate) entirely located in another judicial district, can a suit to foreclose a valid mortgage tliereon be commenced and an order of sale thereunder be made over tbe objection of tbe trustee, by tbe Court of tbe latter district? “This question was answered in the negative but the facts in the case at bar are entirely different and in the very opinion last cited, Mr. Justice Roberts, writing for the court stated that after the bankruptcy court has acquired jurisdiction of the estate, other courts are without jurisdiction “save by consent of the bankruptcy court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Parrino
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.