In Re Fitch’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 2015
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. § 101 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005) · 11 U.S.C. § 1222 · 11 U.S.C. § 365
Relies on Mitchell v. Streets · 200 Ill. App. 3d 855 - Russell v. Jim Russell Supply, Inc. · Terrell v. Albaugh · In Re Norquist · Fitch v. Miller
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a contract under which the obligation of both the bankrupt and the other party to the contract are so far unperformed that the failure of either to complete performance would constitute a material breach excusing performance by the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Vinson“the trustee, subject to the court's approval, may assume or reject any executory contract or unexpired lease of the debtor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Vinson
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.