Hicks, Muse & Co. v. Brandt’s Empirical Analysis
136 F.3d 45 · 1998
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 18 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably United States v. Working (2000), Rhode Island Department Of Environmental Management v. United States (2002)
23 federal appellate · 18 district · 2 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. § 105 · 11 U.S.C. § 1127 · 11 U.S.C. § 362 · 11 U.S.C. § 363 · 11 U.S.C. § 541 · 11 U.S.C. § 544
Relies on Protective Committee for Independent Stockholders of TMT Trailer Ferry, Inc. v. Anderson · Caplin v. Marine Midland Grace Trust Co. of New York · Institut Pasteur v. Cambridge Biotech Corp. · Martin v. Kane · Zale Corporation Feld v. Zale Corporation
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the probability of success were the claim to be litigated — given the legal and evidentiary obstacles and the ex pense, inconvenience and delay entailed in its litigation — measured against the more definitive, concrete and immediate benefits attending the proposed settlement (so-called “best interests” standard); (2) a reasonable accommodation of the creditors’ views regarding the proposed settlement; and (8) the experience and competence of the fiduciary proposing the settlement.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he responsibility of the bankruptcy judge, and ours on review, is not to decide the numerous questions of law and fact raised by appellants but rather to canvass the issues and see whether the settlement falls below the lowest point in the range of reasonableness.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the challenged bankruptcy court order [to have] been implemented to the degree that meaningful appellate relief is no longer practicable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.