Mack v. Newton’s Empirical Analysis
737 F.2d 1343 · 1984
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Acequia Inc. v. Clinton (1994), United Energy Corp Wyle v. Ch Rider & Family (1991)
45 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 107
Relies on The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · American Tobacco Co. v. United States · Commissioner v. Engle · Katchen v. Landy · Katchen v. Landy
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It would defeat the purpose of the Bankruptcy Act's provisions relating to fraudulent transfers to allow [creditors] to offset the value of the property thus transferred to them by the amount of their unsecured claim against [the debtor].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A mere scintilla of evidence is insufficient to present a question for the jury.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under Texas law it is well settled that in order to recover on a theory of conversion one must at the time of the conversion either have some character of ownership interest in the specific property converted or be in legal possession of it or then entitled to its possession.”
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.