Suhl v. Bumb’s Empirical Analysis
348 F.2d 869 · 1965
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently July 2010 · most notably Stodd v. Goldberger (1977), Suhl v. United States (1968)
28 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Thompson v. Magnolia Petroleum Co. · Sampsell v. Imperial Paper & Color Corp. · Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Thompson · 5 F. Supp. 892 - In Re Retail Stores Delivery Corporation
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The power of a bankruptcy court to resolve adverse claims concerning the assets of the bankrupt's estate is indeed a power of imposing magnitude. Since it results in depriving adverse claimants of a plenary suit, we must ever be cautious lest we permit its extension to a situation that should not permit summary disposition.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The summary proceedings conducted by the referee certainly may lead one to reasonably conclude that appellants have no substantial defense to the trustee's allegations of fraud. But without actual or constructive possession of the property in the hands of the trustee, summary jurisdiction is not authorized, and adverse claimants must be afforded the right to a plenary independent suit. 348 F.2d at 872 .”
2 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.