72319 Joliet-Will County Community Action Agency Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs Action’s Empirical Analysis
847 F.2d 430 · 1988
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 29 114 75276 Yonikus Yonikus, Transit Express, Inc. v. Ettinger (2001)
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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. § 101 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005) · 11 U.S.C. § 326 · 11 U.S.C. § 541 · 11 U.S.C. § 544 · 42 U.S.C. § 9904
Relies on United States v. Orleans · McKean Buchanan v. James Alexander · In the Matter of Unr Industries Inc et Als · Henry v. First National Bank · Hayle v. United States
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]o long as money remains in the hands of a disbursing officer, it is as much the money of the United States, as if it had not been drawn from the treasury.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a trustee, custodian, or other intermediary, who lacks beneficial title and is merely an agent for the disbursal of funds belonging to another.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“depends on the terms under which the grants were made. Did [the terms] constitute [the debtor] a trustee, custodian or other intermediary, who lacks beneficial title and is merely an agent for the disbursal of funds belonging to another? If so, the funds were not assets of the estate.... Or were the grants more like payment under a contract for promised performance not actually performed? The promisee would have a contractual claim for the return of the money he had paid, but he would not have a property right in the money.”
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.