In re Richard’s Empirical Analysis
94 F. 633 · 1899
Citation profile
12 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1928
12 district ·
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
Relies on In re Smith · In re Stevenson · Albright v. . Albright · Cowan v. . Phillips · State Ex Rel. McD. Pate & Co. v. Harper
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' “Respondents have attempted to gain an advantage, and failed. The respondents must pay the costs in the state cjurt, and refund what has been collected under these- proceedings. They are still creditors of the bankrupt, after a fruitless fight. They have "gained no advantage and acquired no lien, but are still creditors unsecured. Should they be punished by a loss of their debts because they were vigilant? The law does not so provide. It favors vigilance, especially when untainted with fraud. The cases cited under the act of 1867 do not apply. In most of them the creditor had gained a preference which he would not surrender, or made himself party to an actual fraud, and such would be the law under section 57 of the act of 1898. Respondents have received ho preference and been parties to no actual fraud, but only to such fraud on the operation of the bankrupt act as vitiates their proceedings. They are creditors, and, on a surrender of the amount collected of the bankrupt estate, are entitled to prove their claims, as other unsecured creditors.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Greth
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.