In Re Kerns’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 2018
3 federal appellate · 2 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. § 362
Relies on United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Florida Power & Light Co. v. Lorion · Mallard v. United States Dist. Court for Southern Dist. of Iowa · Diamond v. Chakrabarty
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) The question of whether cause exists is a separate inquiry dependent upon the facts as adduced at the hearing and guided by the trial court’s discretion; (2) that where cause does exist, relief must be granted; (3) and that, in fashioning the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]here the third-party purchaser has expressly provided for the possibility of the sale being nullified due to an appeal, the mootness problem is not present because the reviewing court can grant effective relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress created Chapter 12 in 1986 in order to give family farmers facing bankruptcy a fighting chance to reorganize their debts and keep their land.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fortney Freund 12
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.