Vergos v. Gregg's Enterprises, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
159 F.3d 989 · 1998
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Chapman v. Higbee Co. (2003), Quang Ly Tran v. Gonzales (2006)
21 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 350
Relies on United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · United States v. Turkette · Caminetti v. United States · Appleton v. First National Bank of Ohio
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appleton v. First Nat'l Bank of Ohio, 62 F.3d 791 , 801 (6th Cir. 1995). Where”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he court must look beyond the language of the statute, however, when the text is ambiguous or when, although the statute is facially clear, a literal interpretation would lead to internal inconsistencies, an absurd result, or an interpretation inconsistent with the intent of Congress.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n addition to the filing fee paid to the clerk, a quarterly fee shall be paid to the United States trustee, for deposit in the Treasury, in each case under chapter 11 of title 11 for each quarter (including any fraction thereof) until the case is converted or dismissed, whichever occurs first. The fee shall be $250 for each quarter in which disbursements total less than $15,000....”
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.