Florance v. Kresge’s Empirical Analysis
93 F.2d 784 · 1938
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2011 · most notably Katchen v. Landy (1966), Katchen v. Landy (1966)
33 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 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 Alexander v. Hillman · Arkansas Valley Smelting Co. v. Belden Mining Co. · Delaware County Commissioners v. Diebold Safe & Lock Co. · Burck v. Taylor · Boston Ice Co. v. Potter
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“although an executory contract may be nonassignable because of its personal nature or because of a provision therein for nonassignment, nevertheless, once the contract has become executed to the extent that nothing remains to be done except the payment of money by one of the parties to the other, the claim becomes a chose in action which is assignable.”
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.