In Re Herzig’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 2015
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. § 541
Relies on Patterson v. Shumate · Lichstrahl v. Bankers Trust · Kincaid v. A Watson · In Re SPM Manufacturing Corp. · In Re Martin
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the law of spendthrift trusts does not permit a beneficiary to retain both the protection of the spendthrift clause and the right to take action which would result in a ... distribution from the plan.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Taft
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.