In re Kornbluth’s Empirical Analysis
65 F.2d 400 · 1933
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 1998 · most notably Sandy Ridge Development Corporation Sandy Ridge Development Corporation v. Louisiana National Bank (1989), Underhill v. Royal (1985)
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 Cumberland Glass Manufacturing Co. v. De Witt & Co. · Zavelo v. Reeves · Henry Friend v. James Talcott · Myers v. International Trust Co. · Nassau Smelting & Refining Works, Ltd. v. Brightwood Bronze Foundry 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But a moral obligation to pay in full survives a discharge in bankruptcy, and a subsequent promise to pay the balance of the debt is enforceable. Zavelo v. Reeves, 227 U.S. 625 , 33 S.Ct. 365 , 57 L.Ed. 676 , Ann. Cas. 1914D, 664; Dusenbury v. Hoyt, 53 N.Y. 521 , 13 Am. Rep. 543 ; Christie v. Bridgman, 51 N.J. Eq. 331 , 25 A. 939 , 30 A. 429 ; Livesay v. First Nat'l Bank of Lockney (Tex.Com.App.), 57 S.W.2d 86 , 91 A.L.R. 873 . And the rule is the same in the case of a discharge by confirmation of a composition, the courts again recognizing its essential similarity to the orthodox discharge. Spann v. Read Phosphate Co. (C.C.A.), 238 F. 338 ; In re Merriman, Fed. Cas. No. 9, 479; Shively v. Globe Mfg. Co., 205 Iowa 1233 , 219 N.W. 266 ; Schuman Bros. v. First Nat'l Bank of Skiatook, 115 Okla. 23 , 240 P. 647 ; Higgins v. Dale, 28 Minn. 126 , 9 N.W. 583 ; Herrington v. Davitt, 220 N.Y. 162 , 115 N.E. 476 , 1 A.L.R. 1700 ; Cohen v. Lachenmaier, 147 Wis. 649 , 133 N.W. 1099 . See McClintic-Marshall Co. v. New Bedford, 239 Mass. 216 , at page 223, 131 N.E. 444 ; cf. Zavelo v. Reeves, 227 U.S. 625 , 33 S.Ct. 365 , 57 L.Ed. 676 , Ann. Cas. 1914D, 664. Contra: Taylor v. Skiles, 113 Tenn. 288 , 81 S.W. 1258 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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