In the Matter of James P Butler James P Butler’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018
2 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 McNish v. American Brass Co. · Levy v. Industrial Finance Corp. · Royal Indemnity Co. v. Cooper · In re Leichter · Bernstein v. Associates Discount 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“materially false statement in writing respecting his financial condition,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[w]hether he meets the statutory description of an ‘executive’ of the corporation will depend not simply on what title he holds but on all the circumstances which surround his conduct, especially on what is reflected toward the creditor with whom he deals on behalf of the corporation. The determination whether one is an ‘executive’ of a corporation is not a technical question but a practical one to be determined in the light of business usage and experience.” 9”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“while engaged in business as a sole proprietor, partnership, or as an executive of a corporation, obtained for such business money or property on credit by making or publishing ... a materially false statement in writing respecting his financial condition .... [Emphasis added]”
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.