Lines v. Frederick’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
125 federal appellate · 24 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 921 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Kokoszka v. Belford (1974), Goff v. Taylor (1983)
125 federal appellate · 24 district · 7 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Local Loan Co. v. Hunt · Sniadach v. Family Finance Corp. of Bay View · Segal v. Rochelle · United States v. Maryland Savings-Share Ins. Corp.
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 921 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'new opportunity in and a clear field for future effort, unhampered by the pressure and discouragement of pre-existing debt.'”
38 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(5) property, including rights of action, which prior to the filing of the petition [the bankrupt] . . . could by any means have transferred or which might have been levied upon and sold under judicial process against him, or otherwise seized, impounded, or sequestered ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Donaghy
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.