Postel v. Broadway Trust Co.’s Empirical Analysis
29 F.2d 281 · 1928
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1960
4 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 Dutcher v. Wright · In re De Lewandowski
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule in computing time is to exclude the first day and include the last. This is the rule of the Bankruptcy Act whenever the time is enumerated by days. Section 31a ( 11 U.S.C.A. § 54 ). It has been held that the rule of computation stated in section 31 as to days should be applied when the time is limited by months or years. In Re De Lewandowski, D.C., 243 F. 787 , and cases cited. “In the case at bar, to ascertain whether the judgment was taken within four months before the filing of the petition, we must exclude the day of the petition and count backward toward the day of the judgment. This must be the - method whenever the computation is of time before a certain event. Both parties here agree that this is the proper procedure. Applying this method, excluding August 26 and counting backward, we find August 25 is the last day of the first month, that July 25 is the last day of the second month, that June 25 is the last day of the third month, that May 25 is the last day of the fourth month, and that April 25 is the last day of the fifth month before the day the petition was filed. Therefore April 25 is not within four months before August 26.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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