Cline v. Kaplan’s Empirical Analysis
323 U.S. 97 · 1944
Citation profile
322 federal appellate · 36 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 687 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2016 · most notably Katchen v. Landy (1966), Katchen v. Landy (1966)
322 federal appellate · 36 district · 10 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
reviewedKaplan v. Cline (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Thompson v. Magnolia Petroleum Co. · Harrison v. Chamberlin · Taubel-Scott-Kitzmiller Co. v. Fox · Louisville Trust Company v. Leonard Comingor
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 687 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Once it is established that the claim is not colorable nor frivolous, the ¡claimant has the right to have the merits of his claim passed on in a plenary suit and not summarily. Of such a claim the bankruptcy court cannot retain further jurisdiction unless the claimant consents to its adjudication in the bankruptcy- court. MacDonald v. Plymouth County Trust Co., 286 U.S. 263 , 52 S.Ct. 505 , 76 L.Ed. 1093 .””
27 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether or not there was the necessary consent upon which * * * power to proceed may depend is, as is so often true in determining consent, a question depending on the facts of the particular case.”
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.