Lehigh and Hudson River Railway Company v. Troiano’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2011
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 Gagnon v. Scarpelli · Lowden v. Northwestern Nat Bank & Trust Co of Minneapolis Minn · Susquehanna Chemical Corp. v. Producers Bank & Trust Co. · In the Matter of Penn Central Transportation Company · In re New York, New Haven & Hartford R.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Summary jurisdiction is available to resolve] conflicting claims of the bankrupt and others to the ownership of such intangibles; in such cases the rule with respect to choses in action is the same as that with respect to tangible property. But ... the bankruptcy court does not have summary jurisdiction to enforce a chose in action against the bankrupt’s obligor, even when the bankrupt’s rights seem clear.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an obligor to pay something which he has substantial grounds for contending he no longer owed when the (bankruptcy) petition was approved.”
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.