First Nat. Bank of Cincinnati v. Flershem’s Empirical Analysis
290 U.S. 504 · 1934
Citation profile
130 federal appellate · 14 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 233 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably Louisville Joint Stock Land Bank v. Radford (1935), Case v. Los Angeles Lumber Products Co. (1939)
130 federal appellate · 14 district · 11 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
reviewedFlershem v. National Radiator Corp. (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. Boyd · Metcalf Brothers Company v. Benjamin Barker Jr · Riehle v. Margolies · Pusey & Jones Co. v. Hanssen · Kneeland v. American Loan & Trust 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 233 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Reorganization was the primary relief sought. The appointment of the receivers and the judicial sale were the device employed to effect a transfer of the assets of the existing corporation to a new one, thereby relieving both from the payment of the former’s debts. 9 By these means it was hoped to subject all dissenting creditors to the condition of impotency so frequently occupied by minority stockholders.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“court's power was invoked for a purpose for which it may not be exercised.”
2 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.