Finn v. Meighan’s Empirical Analysis
325 U.S. 300 · 1945
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 237 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2016 · most notably Hol-Gar Manufacturing Corp. v. United States (1965), Smith v. Hoboken Rr Warehouse & Ss Connecting Co (1946)
67 federal appellate · 3 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
reviewedMeighan v. Finn (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 110 · 11 U.S.C. § 502 · 11 U.S.C. § 526 (§ 227 of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005)
Relies on Re Metropolitan Railway Receivership · George West Co v. Lea · Gazlay v. Williams · In re Walker
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 237 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““an express covenant that the bankruptcy of a specified party thereto or of either party shall terminate the lease . . . [is] enforceable.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(Such clauses) are liberally construed in favor of the bankrupt lessee so as not to deprive the estate of property which may turn out to be a valuable asset.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(W)e must read § 70(b) as providing that an express covenant is enforceable which allows the lessor to terminate the lease if a petition to reorganize the lessee under Ch. X is approved.... That being the policy adopted by Congress, our duty is to enforce it.”
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.