First Nat. Bank v. Conway Road Estates Co.’s Empirical Analysis
94 F.2d 736 · 1938
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 1983 · most notably In Re Victory Const. Co., Inc. (1981), Furness v. Lilienfield (1983)
20 federal appellate · 3 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 Wright v. Vinton Branch of Mountain Trust Bank · Harrison v. Chamberlin · Taubel-Scott-Kitzmiller Co. v. Fox · Harkin v. Brundage · Taubel-Scott-Kitzmiller Co. v. Fox
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In a reorganization proceeding under section 77B [ 11 U.S.C.A. § 207 ] good faith means more than honesty of purpose. It also requires that there be a reasonable possibility of successful reorganization. Wright v. Vinton Branch Bank, 300 U.S. 440 , 463, 57 S.Ct. 556 , 562, 81 L.Ed. 736 [ 112 A.L.R. 1455 ]; Tennessee Publishing Co. v. American Bank, supra [ 299 U.S. 18 , 57 S.Ct. 85 , 81 L.Ed. 13 ]; In re Tennessee Publishing Co., 6 Cir., 81 F.2d 463 ; In re Loeb Apartments, 7 Cir., 89 F.2d 461 ; Manati Sugar Co. v. Mock, 2 Cir., 75 F.2d 284 ; O’Connor v. Mills, 8 Cir., 90 F.2d 665 ; Provident Ins. Co. v. University Church, 9 Cir., 90 F.2d 992 . “Whenever want of good faith appears the debtor’s petition should be dismissed even though a plan of reorganization has not been submitted. The District Court was reversed for failure to dismiss in such a case in Provident Ins. Co. v. University Church, supra, in Re Wisun & Golub, 2 Cir., 84 F.2d 1 , and in Re North Kenmore Corporation, 7 Cir., 81 F.2d 656 . The-judgment of the District Court dismissing the petition for want of good faith was affirmed in O’Connor v. Mills, supra; in Manati Sugar Co. v. Mock, supra; and in Re Grigsby-Grunow Co., 7 Cir., 77 F.2d 200 . “In Brockett v. Winkle Terra Cotta Co., 8 Cir., 81 F.2d 949 , 953, Judge Van Vallcenburgh, speaking for this court, said in-reference to section 77B: ‘ “The outstanding purpose of the Amended Act, upon which this case rests, was to afford aid in the effort to rehabilitate ”
3 later decisions 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.