Marine Harbor Properties, Inc. v. Manufacturers Trust Co.’s Empirical Analysis
317 U.S. 78 · 1942
Citation profile
91 federal appellate · 20 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 242 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2010 · most notably Caplin v. Marine Midland Grace Trust Co. of New York (1972), Group of Institutional Investors v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad (1943)
91 federal appellate · 20 district · 5 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
reviewedIn re Marine Harbor Properties, Inc. (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Case v. Los Angeles Lumber Products Co. · Securities & Exchange Commission v. United States Realty & Improvement Co. · Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. Boyd · Kalb v. Feuerstein · Consolidated Rock Products Co. v. Du Bois
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 242 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Without limiting the generality of the meaning of the term `good faith', a petition shall be deemed not to be filed in good faith if — "(3) it is unreasonable to expect that a plan of reorganization can be affected; or "(4) a prior proceeding is pending in any court and it appears that the interests of creditors and stockholders would be best subserved in such prior proceeding.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Lela & Co. · In re Lela & Co.““Without limiting the generality of the meaning of the term ‘good faith’, a petition shall be deemed not to be filed in good faith if— (3) it is unreasonable to expect that a plan of reorganization can be effected.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If an answer filed by any creditor, indenture trustee, or stockholder shall controvert any of the material allegations of the petition, the judge shall, as soon as may be, determine, without the intervention of a jury, the issues presented by the pleadings and enter an order approving the petition, if satisfied that it complies with the requirements of this chapter and has been filed in good faith and that the material allegations are sustained by the proofs, or dismissing it if not so satisfied.”
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.