In re Rogers-Pyatt Shellac Co.’s Empirical Analysis
51 F.2d 988 · 1931
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently June 2008 · most notably Fanelli v. Hensley (1983), In Re Roberts (1985)
18 federal appellate · 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 Weil v. Neary · General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. Updike · Kaufman v. Morrison · In re Rogers Pyatt Shellac Co.
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“who seek appointment as counsel for an officer of the court owe the duty of complete disclosure of all facts bearing upon their eligibility for such appointment.... If the rule is to have vitality and the evils against which it is aimed are to be eliminated, it should be enforced literally.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he only argument in favor of a nunc pro tunc order is that of hardship. But the hardship is of the appellants’ own making. The rule is clear, and they are charged with knowledge of it. To give heed to the argument of hardship in such circumstances would nullify the requirement that the affidavit be filed before the appointment is made. One reason for that requirement is obviously to allow the court to consider the grounds advanced for selecting counsel presumptively disqualified by representation of the petitioning creditors, unaffected by the emotional pressure which inevitably arises in their favor after the services have been rendered.... If the rule is to have vitality and the evils against which it is aimed are to be eliminated, it should be enforced literally. Impliedly it forbids a nunc pro tunc order to validate for purposes of compensation an appointment which could not properly have been made had the required affidavit been filed.”
3 later decisions 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.