Woods v. City Nat Bank & Trust Co of Chicago’s Empirical Analysis
312 U.S. 262 · 1941
Citation profile
197 federal appellate · 64 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 952 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2022 · most notably Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation (1943), National Labor Relations Board v. Amax Coal Co. (1981)
197 federal appellate · 64 district · 42 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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
reviewedCity Nat. Bank & Trust Co. v. Woods (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Meinhard v. Salmon · Case v. Los Angeles Lumber Products Co. · Weil v. Neary · American United Mut Life Ins Co v. City of Avon Park Fla
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 952 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he incidence of a particular conflict of interest can seldom be measured with any degree of certainty. The bankruptcy court need not speculate as to whether the result of the conflict was to delay action where speed was essential, to close the record of past transactions where publicity and investigation were needed, to compromise claims by inattention where vigilant assertion was necessary, or otherwise to dilute the undivided loyalty owed to those whom the claimant purported to represent. Where an actual conflict of interest exists, no more need be shown in this type of case to support a denial of compensation.”
55 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(4) all payments made or promised by the debtor or by a corporation issuing securities or acquiring property under the plan or by any other person, for services and for costs and expenses in, or in connection with, the proceeding or in connection with, the plan and incident to the reorganization, have been fully disclosed to the judge and are reasonable or, if to be fixed after confirmation of the plan, will be subject to the approval of the judge; and”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Gerdes · Leiman v. Guttman“Thus where taxes have been paid, needful repairs or additions to the property have been made, or the like, equity does not permit the estate to retain those benefits without paying for them. Such classification of expenses, at times difficult, rests in the sound discretion of the bankruptcy court.”
4 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.