Elliott v. Hardison’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2017
4 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 362
Relies on Holtkamp v. Littlefield · John Doe v. Brown · First State Bank & Trust Co. v. Sand Springs State Bank · Midwest Mutual Insurance v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · Litton Systems, Inc. v. Frigitemp Corp. (In Re Frigitemp Corp.)
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“commits the decision of whether to lift the stay to the discretion of the bankruptcy judge”
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.