Wells v. Place’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 1991
2 federal appellate · 1 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. § 107
Relies on Holmberg v. Armbrecht · Bailey Assignee v. Glover et al. · Exploration Co. v. United States · Herget v. Central Nat Bank & Trust Co of Peoria · Lavenburg v. Universal Sportwear, Inc.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A receiver or trustee may, within two years subsequent to the date of adjudication or within such further period of time as the federal or state law may permit, institute proceedings in behalf of the estate upon any claim. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“where Congress had made it clear, explicitly or by necessary implication, that the statute is not to be so tempered.”
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.