In Re Platt’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 6 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably Filtercorp Inc Paulman v. Gateway Venture Partners III Lp, Chaseley's Foods Inc Freeland (1983)
23 federal appellate · 6 district · 13 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Lewis v. Manufacturers National Bank of Detroit · Industrial Packaging Products Co. v. Fort Pitt Packaging International, Inc. · 247 F. Supp. 229 - In Re Komfo Products Corporation
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . sufficiently related to the name of the debtor, Henry Platt, to require those who search the records to make further investigation . . .”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he addition of the word 'future' to 'accounts receivable and inventory' would not seem to help an interested party in determining the status of the debtor.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““For the purposes of this article any description of personal property or real estate is sufficient whether or not it is specific if it reasonably identifies what is described.””
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.