In re 620 Church Street Building Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
299 U.S. 24 · 1936
Citation profile
93 federal appellate · 12 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 192 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2017 · most notably Case v. Los Angeles Lumber Products Co. (1939), Holiday v. Johnston (1941)
93 federal appellate · 12 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Louisville Joint Stock Land Bank v. Radford · Ex Parte Chetwood · Plymouth Coal Company v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania T · Southern Railway Company v. Josephine King No 140 Southern Railway Company · Tennessee Pub Co v. American Nat Bank
Most-quoted passages
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“Petitioners insist that their consent to the plan of reorganization was necessary or that their claims should have been accorded `adequate protection.' But the adequate protection to which the statute refers is `for the realization of the value of the interests, claims or liens' affected. Here the controlling finding is not only that there was no equity in the property above the first mortgage, but that petitioners' claims were appraised by the court as having `no value.' There was no value to be protected.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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