Amsinck v. Bean’s Empirical Analysis
89 U.S. 395 · 1874
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 14 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2000 · most notably In re Meyer (1899), In re Bertenshaw (1907)
18 federal appellate · 14 district · 11 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.
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““These regulations [said the court] show that in cases where they apply the assignees in bankruptcy of the joint stock and property of a copartnership are required to administer the separate estate of the individual members of the firm or company as well as the described estate of the copartnership, but the bankruptcy act contains no regulations of a corresponding character applicable in a case where an individual member of a copartnership is adjudged a bankrupt without any such decree against the copartnership or the other partner or partners of which the copartnership is composed.” Amsinck v. Bean, 89 U. S. 395 , 401, 22 L. Ed. 801 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Bertenshaw““Bankruptcy, it is said, when decreed by a competent tribunal, dissolves the copartnership, but the joint property remains in the hands of the solvent partner or partners, clothed with a trust to be applied by him or them to the discharge of the partnership obligations and to account to the bankrupt partner or his assignees for his share of the surplus.” Amsinck v. Bean, 89 U. S. 395 , 22 L. Ed. 801 . (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘■Where all the partners become bankrupt the general rule is that the separate estate of one partner shall not claim against the joint estate of the partnership in competition with the joint creditors, nor shall the joint estate claim against the separate estate in competition with the separate creditors.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Telfer
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.