Joint Industry Board of Electrical Industry v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 13 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 202 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2014 · most notably Runyon v. McCrary (1976), In re Saco Local Development Corp. (1983)
29 federal appellate · 13 district · 11 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
reviewedIn re A & S Electric Corp. (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Embassy Restaurant, Inc. · Fortnightly Corp. v. United Artists Television, Inc. · Miller v. California · In re Lawsam Electric Co.
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 202 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) The debts to have priority, in advance of the payment of dividends to creditors, and to be paid in full out of bankrupt estates, and the order of payment, shall be (1) the costs and expenses of administration, including the actual and necessary costs and expenses of preserving the estate subsequent to filing the petition; ... (2) wages and commissions, not to exceed $600 to each claimant, which have been earned within three months before the date of the commencement of the proceeding, due to workmen, servants, clerks, or traveling or city salesmen on salary or commission basis, whole or part time, whether or not selling exclusively for the bankrupt; and for the purposes of this clause, the term “traveling or city salesman” shall include all such salesmen, whether or not they are independent contractors selling the products or services of the bankrupt on a commission basis, with or without a drawing account or formal contract; .' .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Moreover, taxes and Social Security contributions which are withheld from wages are entitled to a fourth priority as taxes rather than a second priority as wages.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Id. 51 Likewise, in Joint Industry Board, the Supreme Court, following its decision and rationale in Embassy Restaurant, held that a claim for an employer's unpaid contributions to an employees' annuity plan established by a collective bargaining agreement was not a claim for”
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.