In Re: Mary L. Polis’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2020 · most notably Schwab v. Reilly (2010), Biesek v. Soo Line Railroad (2006)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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
Relies on 29 114 75276 Yonikus Yonikus · Sierra Switchboard Co. v. Westinghouse Electric Corp. · Mars Steel Corporation v. Continental Illinois National Bank And Trust Company Of Chicago · Cowen v. Bank United of Texas, FSB · Bruce K. Cable, As in Possession v. Ivy Tech State College
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“date of valuation of an asset for purposes of determining whether it can be exempted is the date on which the petition for bankruptcy is filed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“all legal or equitable interests of the debtor in property as of the commencement of the case,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“When there is uncertainty about whether some benefit [such as a monetary award in a class action suit].... will actually be received, the value of the (uncertain) benefit is less than the amount of the benefit if it is received. A claim for $X is not worth $X. A 50 percent chance of obtaining a $1,000 judgment is not worth $1,000. As a first approximation, it is worth $500 ....”
2 later decisions 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.