American Surety Co. v. Sampsell’s Empirical Analysis
327 U.S. 269 · 1946
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 6 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 181 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2017 · most notably Vanston Bondholders Protective Committee v. Green (1946), United States v. Munsey Trust Co. (1947)
51 federal appellate · 6 district · 15 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
reviewedAmerican Surety Co. v. Sampsell (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Pepper v. Litton · Prudence Realization Corp. v. Geist · American Surety Co of New York v. Westinghouse Electric Mfg Co · Prudence Realization Corp. v. Ferris
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 181 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We recently had occasion to reiterate that federal bankruptcy law, not state law, governs the distribution of a bankrupt’s assets to his creditors. Prudence Realization Corp. v. Geist, 316 U.S. 89, 95 , 62 S.Ct. 978, 982 , 86 L.Ed. 1293 . See also Pepper v. Litton, 308 U.S. 295, 303-306 , 60 S.Ct. 238, 243-245 , 84 L.Ed. 238 ; Prudence Realization Corp. v. Ferris, 323 U.S. 650, 653 , 65 S.Ct. 539, 540 , 89 L.Ed. 528 . True, we stated in both Prudence opinions that the federal law governing distribution of a bankrupt’s estate should be applied with “appropriate regard for rights acquired under rules of state law ...” But the extent to which state law is to be so considered is in the last analysis a matter of federal law. [ 327 U.S. at 272 , 67 S.Ct. at 244 ]”
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.