Union Joint Stock Land Bank of Detroit v. Byerly’s Empirical Analysis
310 U.S. 1 · 1940
Citation profile
69 federal appellate · 7 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2016 · most notably Lance, Inc. v. Dewco Services, Inc. (1970), Bruckman v. Hollzer (1946)
69 federal appellate · 7 district · 22 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
reviewedByerly v. Union Joint Stock Land Bank of Detroit (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Louisville Joint Stock Land Bank v. Radford · Kalb v. Feuerstein · Kalb v. Feuerstein · Wayne United Gas Co. v. Owens-Illinois Glass Co. · Noble v. Union River Logging Railroad
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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The District Court did not lose jurisdiction by erroneously construing or applying provisions of the statute under which it administered the bankrupt estate. Its order was voidable, but not void, and was not to be disregarded or attacked collaterally....”
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.