Legg v. St. John’s Empirical Analysis
296 U.S. 489 · 1936
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2012 · most notably Helvering v. Le Gierse (1941), Provident Trust Co. v. Rothman (1935)
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 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
reviewedLegg v. St. John (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 110
Relies on Local Loan Co. v. Hunt · Everett v. Judson · Burlingham v. Crouse · Cohen v. Samuels · New York Life Insurance v. Edwards
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Nor are the benefits payable after the adjudication in any sense future earnings. ■ They are not the fruit of anything to be done by Legg after the adjudication. The right to receive disability benefits in the future [wages, in the case at bar] does not differ from any other right acquired before adjudication to receive money thereafter. It is in essence an annuity purchased and paid for prior to the adjudication. Like other property, it passed to the trustee * * (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Dykes“The fact that the disability benefits are provided for in a”
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.