In re Lewis’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 9 district ·

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

1. ““I am of opinion that the provisions giving priority to certain costs ill section 64b, clauses 1 to 3, do not so cover the whole matter of costs as to exclude the costs mentioned in section 63a, clause 3, from the priority given them by the law of Massachusetts. The costs dealt with in section 64b, clauses 1 to 3, are costs directly connected with the proceedings in bankruptcy. Tbe costs dealt with in the Massachusetts statute have no direct connection with proceedings in bankruptcy or insolvency. They are dealt with in a part of the Massachusetts insolvency act quite different from that which provides for t lie payment of costs and expenses in insolvency proceedings. That they should have priority does not seem intrinsically more Unreasonable in bankruptcy than in insolvency.””

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

2. ““When an attachment has been made and is not dissolved before the commencement of proceedings in insolvency, or is dissolved by an undertaking given by the defendant, if the claim upon which the attachment suit was commenced is proved against the estate of the debtor, the plaintiff may prove the legal costs and disbursements of the suit, and of the keeping of the property, and the amount thereof shall be a preferred debt.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Copper King, Ltd.