Callaway v. Benton’s Empirical Analysis
336 U.S. 132 · 1949
Citation profile
128 federal appellate · 13 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 327 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2019 · most notably Baker v. Gold Seal Liquors, Inc. (1974), New Haven Inclusion Cases (1970)
128 federal appellate · 13 district · 3 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
reviewedBenton v. Callaway (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2283
Relies on Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Local Loan Co. v. Hunt · Kline v. Burke Construction Co. · Thompson v. Magnolia Petroleum Co. · Continental Illinois Nat Bank Trust Co of Chicago v. Chicago R I & P Ry Co
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 327 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Congress did not give the bankruptcy court exclusive jurisdiction over all controversies that in some way affect the debtor's estate.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““From and after the consummation date the reorganized company shall operate the lines of the South Western for the account of the South Western, subject to the jurisdiction of this court; provided that, if the- properties of the South Western be acquired on the terms set forth in the plan subsequent to the consummation date and within a reasonable time after the termination of the litigation now pending, the effect of such acquisition shall be the same as if such properties had been acquired on such terms on the consummation date, and the result of operation by the reorganized company of South Western’s railroads for the account of South Western, whether profit or loss, shall not affect the amount of bonds distributable under the plan to South Western Railroad Company, or the interest payable thereon from the consummation date.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent““Under the provisions of § 77, as amended in 1935, a lessor railroad can be reorganized in connection with, or as a part of the plan of reorganization of the debtor-lessee only if a majority of its capital stock is owned by the debtor. § 77(a). When § 77 was first enacted in 1933, a lessor could also be reorganized in the lessee’s proceeding if the debtor operated substantially all of the properties of the lessor, but this provision was not reenacted”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.