Spach v. Bryant’s Empirical Analysis
309 F.2d 886 · 1962
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently December 1997 · most notably In the Matter of Mobile Steel Company, Debtor. Elaine E. Benjamin v. Lester Y. Diamond, as Trustee in Bankruptcy for Mobile Steel, Inc. (1977), Machinery Rental, Inc. v. Herpel (1980)
19 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Pepper v. Litton · Local Loan Co. v. Hunt · Securities & Exchange Commission v. United States Realty & Improvement Co. · Arnold v. Phillips · Stewart v. Ganey
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.
““In the careful examination and scrutiny of the claims of the dominant stockholders or officers of the bankrupt corporation, the burden is on such stockholders or officers to show the inherent fairness and good faith of the transactions involved”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wages v. Weiner“it is obvious that salaries must be fixed by the persons receiving them.”
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.