Crosby v. Mills’s Empirical Analysis
413 F.2d 1273 · 1969
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently October 2012 · most notably Zimmerman v. First Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n of Rapid City, S.D. (1988), Auto-Train Corp. v. Midland-Ross Corp. (1987)
24 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1334
Relies on Chicot County Drainage District v. Baxter State Bank · Katchen v. Landy · Securities & Exchange Commission v. United States Realty & Improvement Co. · Katchen v. Landy · Pacific Railroad of Missouri v. Missouri Pacific Ry. Co. And Others. 1
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An order may be entered nunc pro tunc to make the record speak the truth but it cannot supply an order which in fact was not previously made.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . . the chief purpose of the bankruptcy laws is ‘to secure a prompt and effectual administration and settlement of the estate of all bankrupts within a limited period.’ Citing Crosby v. Mills, 413 F.2d 1273 (10th Cir. 1976) which adopted the reasoning in Katchen v. Landy, 382 U.S. 323 [ 86 S.Ct. 467 , 15 L.Ed.2d 391 ] (1966).” Id. at 218.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the absence of a controlling statute, the only time limitation is the equitable doctrine of laches.”
2 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.