In re Coleman’s Empirical Analysis
87 F.2d 753 · 1937
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1998
8 federal appellate · 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. § 110
Relies on Board of Trade of City of Chicago v. Johnson · Page v. Edmunds · Beecher v. Peter A. Vogt Manufacturing Co. · Sargent v. . McLeod · Matter of Weitling
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a. The trustee of the estate of a bankrupt ... upon his ... appointment and qualification, shall in turn be vested by operation of law with the title of the bankrupt as of the date of filing the petition initiating a proceeding under this Act, except insofar as it is to property which is held to be exempt, to all of the following lands of property wherever located ... (5) property, including rights of action, which prior to the filing of the petition he could by any means have transferred or which might have been levied upon and sold under judicial process against him, or otherwise seized, impounded, or sequestered....”
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.