Feinblatt v. Block’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 1993
4 federal appellate · 1 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 11 U.S.C. § 108 · 11 U.S.C. § 110
Relies on Cunningham v. Brown · National Bank of Newport v. National Herkimer County Bank of Little Falls · Brell v. Brell · Eastern Shore Building & Loan Corp. v. Bank of Somerset · Philip I. Palmer, Jr., Etc. v. Radio Corporation of America
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] willing extension of credit is not necessary in order to create an antecedent debt under the preference provision of the [Bankruptcy] Act ... [T]o the contrary, it is a well settled rule that property converted, embezzled, or otherwise taken by the bankrupt, or obtained by him by fraud, can [support] ... a preference.... ’ (quoting Feinblatt v. Block, 456 F.Supp. 776 (D.Md.1978), aff'd in relevant part, modified in part, unpublished per curiam, 605 F.2d 1201 (4th Cir.1979).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Cases on the point have evolved a fine line to apply in determining whether a creditor has “reasonable cause to believe” that a debtor is insolvent. For reasonable cause to exist, it is not necessary that a person benefited by a transfer know positively that the result of the transaction will be to effect a preference: it is sufficient for a finding of reasonable cause that the person or his agent has knowledge of such facts as would induce a person of reasonable prudence to make inquiry, when such inquiry would have developed the facts essential to a knowledge of the situation. On the other hand, if the known facts should raise only a suspicion that the debtor might be insolvent, the test is not met. At 394-95.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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