Continental Illinois Nat Bank Trust Co of Chicago v. Chicago R I & P Ry Co’s Empirical Analysis
294 U.S. 648 · 1935
Citation profile
561 federal appellate · 108 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,519 later decisions (114 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2022 · most notably Blanchette v. Connecticut General Insurance Corporations (1974), Granfinanciera, S.A. v. Nordberg (1989)
561 federal appellate · 108 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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
reviewedContinental Illinois Nat. Bank & Trust Co. v. Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co. (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Local Loan Co. v. Hunt · Kline v. Burke Construction Co. · Patton v. United States · Calder et Wife, v. Bull et Wife. · Dimick v. Schiedt
Cited together with Louisville Joint Stock Land Bank v. Radford · Local Loan Co. v. Hunt · Hanover National Bank v. Moyses · Wright v. Vinton Branch of Mountain Trust Bank · Isaacs v. Hobbs Tie & Timber 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 1,519 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“From the beginning, the tendency of legislation and of judicial interpretation has been uniformly in the direction of progressive liberalization in respect of the operation of the bankruptcy power.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]o prevent the attainment of that object is to defeat the very end the accomplishment of which was the sole aim of the section, and thereby to render its provisions futile.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“exclusive jurisdiction of the debtor and its property, wherever located.”
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.