Advisory Committee of Major Funding Corp. v. Sommers’s Empirical Analysis
109 F.3d 219 · 1997
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2012
6 federal appellate ·
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. § 1103
Relies on Killebrew v. Brewer · Central Transport, Inc. v. Roberto (In Re Tucker Freight Lines, Inc.) · Philip v. L.F. Rothschild Holdings, Inc. (In Re L.F. Rothschild Holdings, Inc.) · In Re US Truck Co., 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Creditor Committees have the responsibility to protect the interest of the creditors; in essence, the function of a creditors' committee is to act as a watchdog on behalf of the larger body of creditors which it represents.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Loop Corp
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.