Erwin v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

47 federal appellate · 7 district · 23 state decisions

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 217 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he passing of claims to heirs, devisees, or assignees in bankruptcy is not within the evil at which the statute aimed,”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Butler v. Goreley · Price v. Forrest

2. ““In general, it may be affirmed that mere personal torts, which die with the party, and do not survive to his personal representative, are not capable of passing by assignmentand that vested rights ad rem and in re, possibili ties coupled with an interest,' and claims growing out of and adhering, to property, may pass by assignment.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Traer v. Clews · Williams v. Heard

3. ““It might in general be said that vested rights ad rem and in re, possibilities coupled with an interest, and claims growing out of and adhering to property, will pass by assignment. Bankr. Act April 4, 1800, c. 19, 2 Stat. 19 , provided that all the assets, real and personal, of every nature and description, to which the bankrupt might be entitled, either in law or in equity, should go to his assignee ; and the court held that the words were broad enough to cover every description of vested right and interest attached to and growing out of property ; that under them the whole property of a testator would pass to his devisee, and whatever an administrator could take in case of intestacy would go to him.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Burnstine