Van Huffel v. Harkelrode’s Empirical Analysis
284 U.S. 225 · 1931
Citation profile
126 federal appellate · 26 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 349 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2020 · most notably Louisville Joint Stock Land Bank v. Radford (1935), Gardner v. State of New Jersey (1947)
126 federal appellate · 26 district · 24 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 Isaacs v. Hobbs Tie & Timber Co. · Phillips v. Commissioner · Straton v. New · International Shoe Co. v. Pinkus
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 349 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The present Bankruptcy Act (July 1, 1898, 30 Stat. 544 , c. 541 [11 USCA § 1 et seq.]), unlike the Act of 1867, contains no provision which in terms confers upon bankruptcy courts the power to sell property of the bankrupt free from incumbrances. We think it clear that the power was granted by implication. Like power had long been exercised by federal courts sitting in equity when ordering sales by receivers or on foreclosure. First National Bank v. Shedd, 121 U. S. 74, 87 , 7 S. Ct. 807 , 30 L. Ed. 877 ; Mellen v. Moline Malleable Iron Works, 131 U. S. 352, 367 , 9 S. Ct. 781 , 33 L. Ed. 178 . “The lower federal courts have consistently held that the bankruptcy court possesses the power, stating that it must be implied from the general equity powers of the court and the duty imposed by section 2 of the Bankruptcy Act (11 USCA § 11) to collect, reduce to money and distribute the estates of bankrupts, and to determine controversies with relation thereto.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the requirements of bankruptcy administration,”
1 later decision 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.