Callaghan v. Reconstruction Finance Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
297 U.S. 464 · 1936
Citation profile
74 federal appellate · 13 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 159 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2012 · most notably Case v. Los Angeles Lumber Products Co. (1939), Brown v. Gerdes (1944)
74 federal appellate · 13 district · 1 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
reviewedUnion Trust Co. of Maryland v. Wagner (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Continental Illinois Nat Bank Trust Co of Chicago v. Chicago R I & P Ry Co · Gross v. Irving Trust Co. · Taylor v. Sternberg · Realty Associates Securities Corp. v. O'Connor
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 159 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Reorganizations now permitted under § 77B present certain resemblances to compositions under § 12, which have been commented upon as supporting the constitutionality of the reorganization provisions of § 77 or § 77B. . . . But § 77B contemplates a procedure and results not per|tnissible under § 12. Reorganizations are nowhere referred to in the statute as compositions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Like public officers generally, they must show clear warrant of law before compensation will be owing to them for the performance of their public duties. [Citing cases.] Extravagant costs of administration in the winding up of estates in bankruptcy have been denounced as crying evils.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“even when the compensation allowed was, in special circumstances, materially less than that which otherwise might have been considered reasonable.”
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.