Williamson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
309 F.2d 892 · 1962
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently February 2000
2 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 556 · 26 U.S.C. § 107
Relies on Callaghan v. Reconstruction Finance Corp. · Estate of Levi T. Scofield, Douglas F. Schofield, Trustee, Mary Jane Scofield Demmon (Nee Mary Jane Scofield), Roy C. Demmon and Mary Scofield Demmon, Josephine Scholfield Thompson, Edward W. Thompson and Josephine S. Thompson, Douglas F. Schofield Trust, Douglas F. Schofield, Trustee, Douglas F. Schofield and Mary D. Schofile, Field, Schofield Building Land Trust, Douglas F. Schofield, Trustee v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Estate of Levi T. Scofield, Douglas F. Schofield, Trustee · Benedict v. United States · Cromelin v. United States · Imperial Assur. Co. v. Livingston
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A trustee in bankruptcy occupies a special fiduciary position. He does not stand merely in the status of the debt- or.... The (Bankruptcy) Act gives the trustee extraordinary powers to assert claims against property both in the possession of the reorganization court and in the hands of third persons in eases where the debtor would be estopped to act and, in some cases, even where creditors could not succeed.”
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.