Dilworth v. Boothe’s Empirical Analysis
69 F.2d 621 · 1934
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Boroff v. Tully (1987), Equitable Bank v. Miller (1994)
12 federal appellate · 3 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 Williams v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Rachmil v. United States · Humphries v. Nalley · Klein v. Powell · White v. Brown Shoe 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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The reasons for denying a discharge to a bankrupt must be real and substantial, not merely technical and conjectural.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The rule is that when a bankrupt acts on the advice of counsel after a full disclosure of the facts to him, fraudulent intent may be presumed to be absent. 69 F.2d at 623 .”
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.