In Re Telegroup, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 76 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 142 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably In Re Hechinger Investment Company Of Delaware (2002), Nisselson v. Softbank Am Corp. (In Re MarketXT Holdings Corp.) (2007)
1 federal appellate · 76 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. § 510
Relies on Robinson v. Shell Oil Co. · Case v. Los Angeles Lumber Products Co. · Caplin v. Marine Midland Grace Trust Co. of New York · Consolidated Rock Products Co. v. Du Bois · In Re O'brien Environmental Energy, Inc.
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 142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For the purpose of distribution under this title, a claim arising from rescission of a purchase or sale of a security of the debtor or of an affiliate of the debtor, for damages arising from the purchase or sale of such a security, or for reimbursement or contribution allowed under section 502 on account of such a claim, shall be subordinated to all claims or interests that are senior to or equal the claim or interest represented by such security, except that if such security is common stock, such claim has the same priority as common stock.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[m]ore important than the timing of the actionable conduct, from a policy standpoint, is the fact that the claims in this case seek to recover a portion of the claimants' equity investment.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Congress enacted § 510(b) to prevent disappointed shareholders from recovering their investment loss by using fraud and other securities claims to bootstrap their way to parity with general unsecured creditors in a bankruptcy proceeding.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.