In re Bedingfield’s Empirical Analysis
96 F. 190 · 1899
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 1989
6 federal appellate · 8 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 Romanow
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““I think the objection to such practice, which Judge Lowell says was urged before him, that this would allow an insufficient number of creditors to bring a proceeding, and afterward build it up to the necessary amount by amendment, is not very serious. It would be necessary in every case, of course, that a petition in involuntary bankruptcy should, on the face of it, show that creditors participated to the amount of five hundred dollars, before a petition could be filed or a rule obtained; and these, of course, would have to be participating in good faith. Then, if afterwards, and before adjudication, it should appear that for some reason one or more of the petitioning creditors did not have debts, or their debts were not provable, and other creditors came in sufficient to make the amount necessary, they could be allowed, and the proceeding stand.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Stein · Manning v. Evans
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.