In the Matter of Francisco Lopez, Debtor-Appellant’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably In Re Dennis Leroy Saxman (2003), United States Trustee v. Gryphon at the Stone Mansion, Inc. (1999)
20 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Relies on Connecticut National Bank v. Germain · U.S. Bancorp Mortgage Co. v. Bonner Mall Partnership · Jove Engineering, Inc. v. Internal Revenue Service · Sambo's Restaurants, Inc. v. Wheeler · Bonner Mall Partnership v. U.S. Bancorp Mortgage Co.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a decision by the district court on appeal remanding the bankruptcy court's decision for further proceedings in the bankruptcy court is not final, and so is not appealable to this court, unless the further proceedings contemplated are of a purely ministerial character.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A bankruptcy case is often a congeries of functionally distinct cases. The clearest example is that of the adversary action. Suppose the debtor has a tort claim against some third party. The trustee in bankruptcy will litigate that claim as an adversary action against the third party, embedded in the bankruptcy proceeding. Once the action is finally decided in the bankruptcy and district courts, the fact that the bankruptcy proceeding may be continuing is no reason to delay the appeal from the decision in the action, so the decision is deemed "final,” and appeal allowed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Jurisdictional rules ought to be simple and precise so that judges and lawyers are spared having to litigate over not the merits of a legal dispute but where and when those merits shall be litigated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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