Adams v. Terrell’s Empirical Analysis
4 F. 796 · 1880
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 2019
1 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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. Whitman · The United States v. Don Fernando De La Maza Arredondo · Elliott v. Lessee of Peirsol · Knowles v. The Gaslight and Coke Company · White Motor Corp. v. Nashville White Trucks, Inc. (In Re Nashville White Trucks, Inc.)
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whatever power the bankrupt court possesses over the subject of bankruptcies it derives exclusively from the bankrupt act. Power not conferred by that act it does not possess. We look in vain through its sections to find any authority conferred to put the estate of a deceased person into bankruptcy. The twofold purpose which the bankrupt act has in view, viz., the equal and just distribution of the bankrupt’s estate among his creditors, and the discharge of the bankrupt from his debts, does not require the application of the law to the estate of the deceased person. The laws of the states provide for an equitable and just distribution of the decedent’s estate, and death has already discharged him of all personal liability. The bankrupt law could, in the case of a deceased person, accomplish nothing not already accomplished without it. “While there is no direct authority given by the bankrupt act over the estates of deceased persons, the implication from what is expressed is strongly against such a jurisdiction. Section 12 of the act- (Eev.St. 5090) declares, if the debtor dies after the issuing of the warrant, the proceedings may be continued and concluded in like manner as if he had lived; that is, the estate of a deceased may be administered after his death if the court has acquired jurisdiction over it in his lifetime. “This excludes the idea that such jurisdiction is conferred unless it is acquired during the life-time of the bankrupt. It has, therefore, been held that i”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.