Burroughs v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
546 F.2d 215 · 1976
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2007
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Relies on Hinz v. Van Dusen · 382 F. Supp. 338 - Inland Security Company, Inc. v. Estate of Kirshner · Joel Bullard, as Trustee of the Estate of Kritzer Radiant Coils, Inc., Bankrupt v. Aluminum Company of America · Golden Rod Mining Co. v. Bukvich
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““... when a corporation ceases to be a going institution, or its business is in such shape that its directors know, or ought to know, that suspension is impending .. . its assets in the hands of such directors become, by equitable conversion, a trust fund for the benefit of its general creditors, so that, if such directors prefer themselves over such general creditors, such action constitutes fraud in law, and equity will compel them to make restitution of all property thereby diverted to their personal benefit to the prejudice of such creditors.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“e. (1) A transfer made or suffered or obligation incurred by a debtor adjudged a bankrupt under this Act which, under any Federal or State law applicable thereto, is fraudulent as against or voidable for any other reason by any creditor of the debtor, having a claim provable under this Act, shall be null and void as against the trustee of such debtor.”
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.