Vanston Bondholders Protective Committee v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
329 U.S. 156 · 1946
Citation profile
375 federal appellate · 109 district · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,926 later decisions (40 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2023 · most notably Grogan v. Garner (1991), United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. (1989)
375 federal appellate · 109 district · 57 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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
reviewedGreen v. Vanston Bondholders Protective Committee (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Pepper v. Litton · Holmberg v. Armbrecht · Board of Com'rs of Jackson County Kan v. United States
Cited together with City of New York v. Saper · Lawrence E. Sexton v. Leopold Louis Dreyfus · United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Butner v. United States · Erie Co v. Tompkins
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 1,926 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he general rule in bankruptcy and in equity receivership has been that interest on the debtors' obligations ceases to accrue at the beginning of proceedings”
34 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is manifest that the touchstone of each decision on allowance of interest in bankruptcy, receivership and reorganization has been a balance of equities between creditor and creditor or between creditors and the debtor.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“What claims of creditors are valid and subsisting obligations against the bankrupt at the time a petition in bankruptcy is filed is a question which, in the absence of overruling federal law, is to be determined by reference to state law.”
26 later decisions 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.