Trulis’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Cooper v. Pickett (1997), Williamson v. General Dynamics Corp. (2000)
32 federal appellate · 4 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.
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 1141 · 28 U.S.C. § 1927
Relies on Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · Griggs v. Provident Consumer Discount Co. · Stoll v. Gottlieb · Pledger v. Medlock · Fertel-Rust v. Milwaukee Police Department
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]nce a bankruptcy plan is confirmed, it is binding on all parties and all questions that could have been raised pertaining to the plan are entitled to res judicata effect.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Creditors who do not wish to release third party debtors pursuant to the principal debtor's plan of reorganization should object to confirmation of the plan on the ground that such a plan provision is violative of section 524 and not within the power, even jurisdiction, of the bankruptcy court. . . . The point is that only a direct attack is available and collateral attack is unavailable."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]ince the plaintiffs never appealed the bankruptcy court's confirmation order, the order is a final judgment and plaintiffs cannot challenge the bankruptcy court's jurisdiction over the subject matter.”
3 later decisions 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.