Highlander, Inc. v. Rothman’s Empirical Analysis
459 F.2d 554 · 1972
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Jones v. Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (1983), Taylor v. Knapp (1989)
13 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. v. Continental Record Co. · Simbraw, Inc. v. United States · United States v. 9.19 Acres of Land · DeVilliers v. Atlas Corp. · In re Carden
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right of creditors to file an answer and oppose the petition has been eliminated in the amendment of section 18b, and section 59f has been changed to correspond with this amendment. A creditor should not be permitted to oppose an adjudication; invariably, the motive of such a creditor is to protect a preference or to retain some other undue advantage at the expense of the other creditors, contrary to the fundamental purpose of the Act an equitable distribution among creditors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“creditors cannot oppose an involuntary adjudication of bankruptcy, either during the proceedings before the bankruptcy court or after completion of those proceedings through a motion to set aside the adjudication.”
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.