In re Kline’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 1992
8 federal appellate ·
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 In re Steele-Smith Dry Goods 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the relation of debtor and creditor did not exist between the bankrupt and the several claimants as to the moneys collected by the [trustee in bankruptcy] on these credit-accounts; ... this money was trust-fund money and was properly allotted by the referee to [the lessees].”
2 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.