Caplin v. Marine Midland Grace Trust Co. of New York’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
184 federal appellate · 81 district · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 996 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2024 · most notably Hirsch v. Arthur Andersen & Co. (1995), Koch Refining v. Farmers Union Central Exchange, Inc. (1987)
184 federal appellate · 81 district · 67 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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
reviewedCaplin v. Marine Midland Grace Trust Co. of New York (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 110 · 11 U.S.C. § 501 · 15 U.S.C. § 77A (§ 1 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77B (§ 2 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77D (§ 4 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77E (§ 5 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77G (§ 7 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77H (§ 8 of the Securities Act of 1933)
Relies on Pepper v. Litton · Protective Committee for Independent Stockholders of TMT Trailer Ferry, Inc. v. Anderson · Case v. Los Angeles Lumber Products Co. · Securities & Exchange Commission v. United States Realty & Improvement Co. · Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. Boyd
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 996 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and that such a policy decision must be left to Congress and not to the judiciary.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“collect and reduce to money the property of the estate for which”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“assume the responsibility of suing third parties on behalf of debenture holders,”
6 later decisions 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.