Boteler v. Ingels’s Empirical Analysis
308 U.S. 57 · 1939
Citation profile
94 federal appellate · 17 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 218 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1998 · most notably Gardner v. State of New Jersey (1947), Reading Company v. Brown (1968)
94 federal appellate · 17 district · 5 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
reviewedIngels v. Boteler (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on New York v. Jersawit · Ingels v. Boteler · People of Illinois ex rel. Ames v. Oppenheimer · Boteler v. Ingels
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 218 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * were incurred by the trustee in operating the bankrupt's business. * * *”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Debts owing to the United States or to any State or any subdivision thereof as a penalty or forfeiture shall not be allowed, except for the amount of the pecuniary loss sustained by the act, transaction, or proceeding out of which the penalty or forfeiture arose, with reasonable and actual costs occasioned thereby and such interest as may have accrued on the amount of such loss according to law.””
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.