Koufman v. Sheinwald’s Empirical Analysis
83 F.2d 977 · 1936
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Meridian Bank v. Alten (1992), White v. Schoenfeld (1941)
4 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 Hanover National Bank v. Moyses · Karger v. Sandler · Shanberg v. Saltzman
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“failed to keep or preserve books of account or records, from which his financial condition and business transactions might be ascertained, unless the court deems such acts or failure to have been justified under -all the circumstances of the case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The court shall grant the debtor a discharge, unless— (5) the debtor has failed to explain satisfactorily, before determination of denial of discharge under this paragraph, any losses of assets or deficiency of assets to meet the debtor’s liabilities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““... to take such steps as ordinary fair dealing and common caution dictate to enable the creditors to learn what he did with his estate.” Koufman v. Sheinwald, 83 F.2d 977, 980 (1st Cir. 1936); In re Martin, 554 F.2d 55 (2d Cir. 1977).”
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.