In re Becker’s Empirical Analysis
98 F. 407 · 1899
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 1947
7 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 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.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the trustee of the estate of the bankrupt. * * * '.shall be vested by operation of law with the title of the bankrupt w -1: * to all * * * powers which he might have exercised for •his own benefit, * * * [and] property which prior- to the filing ■of the petition he could by any means have transferred,” and this 'Court is authorized to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Emrich““It can hardly be correct to hold that a bankrupt’s creditors may not avail themselves of the fact that money can be had for the chance of stepping into the licensee’s place, but that the .bankrupt himself may make the same bargain and put the money safely in his pocket.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Wiesel
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.