Schoenthal v. Irving Trust Co.’s Empirical Analysis
287 U.S. 92 · 1932
Citation profile
87 federal appellate · 27 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 500 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2017 · most notably Granfinanciera, S.A. v. Nordberg (1989), Ross v. Bernhard (1970)
87 federal appellate · 27 district · 13 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Matthews v. Rodgers · Whitehead v. Shattuck · Kennedy v. Gibson · Reynes v. Dumont
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 500 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The facts here alleged give no support to plaintiff's assertion that it has no adequate remedy at law. The preferences sued for were money payments of ascertained and definite amounts. The bill discloses no facts that call for an accounting or other equitable relief.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the long-settled rule that suits in equity will not be sustained where a complete remedy exists at law ..., 'serves to guard the right of trial by jury preserved by the Seventh Amendment and to that end it should be liberally construed.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]uits to recover preferences constitute no part of the proceedings in bankruptcy but concern controversies arising out of it.”
7 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.