Mosser v. Darrow’s Empirical Analysis
341 U.S. 267 · 1951
Citation profile
203 federal appellate · 30 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 673 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2021 · most notably Linkletter v. Walker (1965), Securities & Exchange Commission v. Capital Gains Research Bureau, Inc. (1963)
203 federal appellate · 30 district · 31 state decisions — followed in 11 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Great Northern Ry Co v. Sunburst Oil & Refining Co · Snyder v. Buck · Bowden v. Johnson · Davis v. Preston
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 673 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Equity tolerates in bankruptcy trustees no interest adverse to the trust.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Bogdan · In Re HUTCHINSON“willful and deliberate setting up of an interest in employees adverse to that of the trust.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“established the general proposition that bankruptcy trustees may be held personally liable for breaches of fiduciary duty.... 'The most effective sanction for good administration is personal liability for the consequences of forbidden acts.'”
7 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.