Wolter v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
34 F.2d 598 · 1929
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 1980
3 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 110
Relies on Burlingham v. Crouse · Globe Bank & Trust Co. of Paducah v. Martin · United States v. Winona & St. Peter Railroad · In re Thomas · Kirkpatrick v. Johnson
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But when the beneficiary is the bankrupt and the insured does not have the right to change the beneficiary, the entire beneficial interest in the policy, until it passes into the hands of the trustee, remains an asset of the estate in bankruptcy to which the trustee is entitled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The most that Mr. Johnston can demand is the return of the premiums which he paid with interest and these are justly due him.”
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.