In Re Benny’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 2017
1 federal appellate · 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. § 542 · 11 U.S.C. § 701 · 11 U.S.C. § 702 · 11 U.S.C. § 704 · 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 152 · 18 U.S.C. § 1700 · 18 U.S.C. § 1701
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Katz v. United States · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Subject to any applicable privilege, after notice and a hearing, the court may order an attorney, accountant, or other person that holds recorded information, including books, documents, records, and papers, relating to the debtor’s property or financial affairs, to disclose such recorded information to the trustee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the trustee shall refrain from opening the nonbusiness mail [of the bankrupt] whenever he can practicably identify it as such by examining the information on the envelope.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The trustee is a creature of statute and has only those powers conferred thereby.”
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.