In re Prudence Co.’s Empirical Analysis
96 F.2d 157 · 1938
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 1998 · most notably Hydrocarbon Chemicals Inc 16787 16788 (1969), Sherman v. Buckley (1941)
9 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Johnson v. Collier · Matter of Tillman · In Re the Estate of Montgomery · Prudence Co. v. Fidelity & Deposit Co. · In re San Juan Gold, Inc.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(w)here an attorney (is retained to seek a recovery in pending litigation) on behalf of a (client who becomes a bankrupt midstream), the filing of a petition in bankruptcy does not terminate his employment nor stay the pending (litigation).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Bankruptcy does not invalidate such liens.”
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.