Lewis v. Manufacturers National Bank of Detroit’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
210 federal appellate · 45 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 780 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2018 · most notably Butner v. United States (1979), Patterson v. Shumate (1992)
210 federal appellate · 45 district · 19 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
reviewedAlikasovich v. Manufacturers National Bank of Detroit (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on York Manufacturing Company v. Arthur Cassell J B · Bailey v. Baker Ice Machine Co. · Zartman v. First National Bank · Constance v. Harvey
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 780 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a windfall merely by reason of the happenstance of bankruptcy.”
46 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The trustee, as to all property, whether or not coming into possession or control of the court, upon which a creditor of the bankrupt could have obtained a lien by legal or equitable proceedings at the date of bankruptcy, shall be deemed vested as of such date with all the rights, remedies, and powers of a creditor then holding a lien thereon by such proceedings, whether or not such a creditor actually exists.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * the rights of creditors — whether they are existing or hypothetical — to which the trustee succeeds are to be ascertained as of `the date of bankruptcy,' not at an anterior point of time.”
4 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.