In Re Timbs’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Soares v. Brockton Credit Union (1997), McMullen v. Sevigny (2004)
5 federal appellate · 1 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. § 362 · 11 U.S.C. § 541 · 28 U.S.C. § 157
Relies on Sanders Confectionery Products Inc. v. Heller Financial, Inc. · In re Disbarment of Adelman · Spilman v. Harley · City of New York v. Seawall Associates · Nos. 90-2039, 90-2040
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] good faith mistake of the law, a legitimate dispute as to legal rights or even good faith reliance on an attorney's advice do[es] not relieve a willful violator from the consequences of his act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.