Wells v. Dickinson’s Empirical Analysis
403 F.2d 635 · 1968
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2015
8 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 James Bryson Martin v. Texas · Ohio Valley Bank Co. v. Mack · Caldwell v. Armstrong · Calhoun v. Pate · Edell v. Di Piazza
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A bankrupt ordinarily has no interest in conflicts between the trustee in bankruptcy and creditors over the allowance of claims.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“move the court for an order requiring the trustee to appeal, or for permission to appeal if the trustee declines to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he trustee in bankruptcy. . . represents all creditors . . . .”
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.