Smith v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
317 F.2d 539 · 1963
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2016 · most notably National Labor Relations Board v. Bildisco & Bildisco (1984), Federal's, Inc. v. Edmonton Investment Co. (1977)
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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.
Relationships
Relies on Thompson v. Magnolia Petroleum Co. · Straton v. New · Wayne United Gas Co. v. Owens-Illinois Glass Co. · Bailey v. Baker Ice Machine Co. · Pfister v. Northern Illinois Finance Corp.
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“); 8 JAMES WM. MOORE ET AL., COLLIER ON BANKRUPTCY § 3.15[6] (14th ed.1978) ("contract can only be rejected by affirmative action . . . Unless so rejected, the contract continues in effect”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Jz LLC · In Re Hernandez““[1-3] Appellants failed to file a petition for review within ten days ■of the entry of the referee’s order directing surrender of the property .and as noted instead filed a petition to reclaim. As a result, contends appellee, the order became final, and appellants must be held to have consented to the summary jurisdiction of the bankruptcy court. But appellants specifically asserted in their petition to reclaim that the order requiring the state court receiver to surrender the property ‘was inadvertently made and erroneous.’ x x x referee entertained the challenge to his authority, heard extensive argument, and decided the question adversely to appellants. The petition to reclaim was, in effect, a request for reconsideration of the referee’s prior order requiring surrender of the property. The referee undertook to re-examine his earlier decision — as, in the circumstances of this case, he had the power to do. x x x»”
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.