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159 F.3d 941 · 1998

Citation profile

45
cited by 45 later decisions
1
states following
February 2020
most recently cited

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

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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.

  1. “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
  2. “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
  3. “[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 majority

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.