H. L. Thorndal, Trustee in Bankruptcy of Petroleum Corporation of America, Bankrupt v. Smith, Wild, Beebe & Cades’s Empirical Analysis
339 F.2d 676 · 1965
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2001
13 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Jaffke v. Dunham · Parissi v. Telechron, Inc. · In the Matter of Acme Furnace Fitting Company, a Corporation, Bankrupt. Eusebius J. Biggs v. Gerald P. Grace, as Trustee in Bankruptcy · Milton v. United States · Brennan v. United States Gypsum 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact that the referee did not mark the petition filed at the time it was originally received is of no consequence . . . [A] person filing an instrument should not be responsible for the failure of a receiving public official to perform his duty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A successful party in the District Court may sustain its judgment on any ground that finds support in the record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bookwalter v. Mayer
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.