Berryman Products Inc Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company’s Empirical Analysis
159 F.3d 941 · 1998
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably Webster Bank v. Zak (2002), Bank of New York Trust Co. v. Official Unsecured Creditors' Committee (2009)
18 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
Relies on Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · Fertel-Rust v. Dane County Social Services · Gaydos v. National Union Fire Insurance · Trone v. Roberts Farms, 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“decline to consider the merits of confirmation when a plan has been so substantially consummated that effective judicial relief is no longer available--even though the parties may have a viable dispute on appeal.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the bankruptcy appellate process, we perform the same function as did the district court: Fact findings of the bankruptcy court are reviewed under a clearly erroneous standard and issues of law are reviewed de novo.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he requirement of a stay encapsulates the fundamental bankruptcy policy of reliance on the finality of confirmation orders by the bankruptcy court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 99-11294
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.