Robinson v. Wangemann’s Empirical Analysis
75 F.2d 756 · 1935
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 6 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably United States v. General Geophysical Co. (1961), Lippi v. City Bank (1992)
33 federal appellate · 6 district · 6 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 In re Fechheimer Fisher Co. · San Antonio Hardware Co. v. Sanger · Keith v. Kilmer · Matthews Bros. v. Pullen · Boggs v. Fleming
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[i]t is necessary to a recovery that the corporation should be solvent and have sufficient surplus to prevent injury to creditors when the payment is actually made.'”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“cannot be permitted to share with the other unsecured creditors in the distribution of the assets of the bankrupt estate”
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.