Felty v. Olwan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Without questioning the soundness of those decisions in other jurisdictions holding that without petitioning the Court for authority so to do, a trustee in bankruptcy, by his failure to act, may be held to have elected not to take title to a particular asset of the bankrupt, we are, nevertheless, certain that the application of this rule should be confined to scheduled assets, and that it would be contrary to both the letter and the spirit of the Act, as well as against public policy, to permit a bankrupt to assert title to property, tangi-gle or intangible, which he failed to list. Stephan v. Merchants’ Collateral Corporation, 256 N.Y. 418 , 176 N.E. 824 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Kavanaugh v. Clay