Sampsell v. Imperial Paper & Color Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
313 U.S. 215 · 1941
Citation profile
158 federal appellate · 35 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 691 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2019 · most notably Katchen v. Landy (1966), Nathanson v. National Labor Relations Board (1952)
158 federal appellate · 35 district · 26 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
reviewedImperial Paper & Color Corp. v. Sampsell (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Pepper v. Litton · Taylor v. Standard Gas & Electric Co. · Moore v. Bay Estate of Sassard & Kimball · Taubel-Scott-Kitzmiller Co. v. Fox
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 691 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The power of the bankruptcy court to subordinate claims or adjudicate equities arising out of the relationship between the several creditors is complete.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“mere legal paraphernalia will not suffice to transform into a substantial adverse claimant a corporation whose affairs are so closely assimilated to the affairs of the dominant stockholder that in substance it is little more than his corporate pocket.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“found ... that [a] corporation was 'nothing but a sham and a cloak' devised by [the debtor] 'for the purpose of preserving and conserving his assets' for the benefit of himself and his family[ ] and that the corporation was formed for the purpose of hindering, delaying and defrauding his creditors”
3 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.