Prudence Realization Corp. v. Geist’s Empirical Analysis
316 U.S. 89 · 1942
Citation profile
151 federal appellate · 27 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 381 later decisions (35 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2018 · most notably Brooklyn Sav Bank v. O'Neil Dize (1945), Heiser v. Woodruff (1946)
151 federal appellate · 27 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
reviewedGeist v. Prudence Realization Corp. (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Pepper v. Litton · Case v. Los Angeles Lumber Products Co. · Board of Com'rs of Jackson County Kan v. United States · Federal Power Commission v. Natural Gas Pipeline Co.
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 381 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“but `not without appropriate regard for rights acquired under rules of state law', Prudence Realization Corporation v. Geist, 316 U.S. 89 , 95, 62 S. Ct. 978, 86 L.Ed. 1293”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[W]e are unable to say that the rule laid down is other than one of state law governing the relative rights of claimants in a state liquidation. Nothing decided in Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 [ 58 S.Ct. 817 , 82 L.Ed. 1188 ], requires a court of bankruptcy to apply such a local rule governing the liquidation of insolvent estates. The bankruptcy act prescribes its own criteria for distribution to creditors. In the Interpretation and application of federal statutes, federal not local law applies.””
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.