48 F. Supp. 374 - Charness v. Katz’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 1966
3 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. § 110
Relies on Neely v. Henkel (No. 2) · Michael Dooley v. James Pease · Hicks v. Bekins Moving & Storage Co. · Moore v. Backus · McGovern v. Eckhart
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(5) property, including rights of action, which prior to the filing of the petition he could by any means have transferred or which might have been levied upon and sold under judicial process against him, or otherwise seized, impounded, or sequestered: . . . (6) rights of action arising upon contracts, or usury, or the unlawful taking or detention of or injury to his property; ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“rights of action ex delicto for libel, slander, injuries to the person”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“as of the date of the filing of bankruptcy”
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.