Spach v. Strauss’s Empirical Analysis
373 F.2d 641 · 1967
Citation profile
17 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 1986 · most notably Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Boydston (1975), Friendly Finance Discount Corp. v. Jones (1974)
17 federal appellate ·
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 Chaney v. City of Galveston · Roberts v. W. P. Ford & Son, Inc. · Angelo Minella, Bankrupt v. H. A. Phillips, Trustee in Bankruptcy
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The provisions of § 14(c) of the Bankruptcy Act, relating to discharge, must be construed liberally in favor of the bankrupt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The court shall grant the discharge unless satisfied that the bankrupt has * * * (2) destroyed, mutilated, falsified, concealed or failed to keep or preserve books of account or record, from which his financial condition and business transactions might be ascertained * * * (4) at any time subsequent to the first day of the twelve months immediately preceding the filing of the petition in bankruptcy transferred, removed, destroyed or concealed or permitted to be removed, destroyed or concealed any of his property, with intent to hinder, delay or defraud his creditors * * * or (7) has failed to explain satisfactorily any losses of assets or deficiency of assets to meet his liabilities * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Leachman v. Mitchell““ * * * When the referee’s determination has been approved by the district court, it should not be disturbed on appeal except for the most cogent reasons. Minella v. Phillips, 5 Cir., 1957, 245 F.2d 687 , 690. “By confirming the referee’s findings the District Court made them his own. “Fed.R.Civ.P. 52(a) precludes reversal on a factual issue unless it is found to be clearly erroneous, Chaney v. City of Galveston, 5 Cir., 1966, 368 F.2d 774 . * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Larkins v. Sills
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.