In re Baumann’s Empirical Analysis
96 F. 946 · 1899
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 1956
3 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 Lake County v. Rollins
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This is probably as arbitrary a provision as is to be found in the statute. It was intended to wipe out, as with a sponge, all that confusion which is to be found in previous bankruptcy statutes and decisions as to the meaning of the word ‘insolvency.’ It had also the more comprehensive purpose of designating with absolute fixity the only class of persons upon whom the' involuntary features of the bankruptcy statute should operate, namely, those whose .property was not sufficient in amount to pay their debts. It does not proceed upon any theory that the debts will in fact be paid by the appropriation of the property to that end, nor upon the theory that as a matter of fact it is available for compulsory payment, but upon the theory that the defendant has sufficient property with which he may pay his debts if he chooses to do so. * * * Moreover the language of the above-quoted section is explicit. There is not the least ambiguity about its meaning. It leaves no room for any construction by implication or otherwise. Obviously, it was intended to give us a rule in mathematics, tlie terms of which are absolute.” . -”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Hines““It is my opinion that no. exception can be made but that very one which is found in the statutory definition, and that consequently the value of the homestead must, be included in the aggregate of the defendant’s property, notwithstanding its exemption from execution at law. Although not leviable, it may be used voluntarily for the payment of these debts, which is enough to satisfy the statute.” ■”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.