Castillo v. G’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably D'AOUST v. Diamond (2012), Snyder v. Nolen (2004)
15 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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 Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Imbler v. Pachtman · Butz v. Economou · Stump v. Sparkman · Behrens v. Pelletier
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Today, under the United States Trustee Program, the Attorney General appoints regional U.S. Trustees. These U.S. Trustees are charged with the responsibility of supervising the administration of bankruptcy cases. In regions with sufficient volume of Chapter 13 bankruptcy cases, the U.S. Trustee for that region “may, subject to the approval of the Attorney General, appoint one or more individuals to serve as standing trustee,” 28 U.S.C. § 586 (b), a position that is also referred to as a “private trustee.” H.R.Rep. No. 95-595, at 101, 106-06 (1977), reprinted in 1978 U.S.C.C.A.N. 5963, 6062, 6066-68. Standing trustees must satisfy the eligibility requirements of 11 U.S.C. § 321 , and qualify under 11 U.S.C. § 322 and 28 U.S.C. § 586 . Once appointed, the standing trustee-operating under the supervision of the U.S. Trustee and pursuant to legislative and judicial directives—performs a wide variety of functions previously performed by bankruptcy judges. The United States Trustee is the “watchdog” of the bankruptcy system, H.R.Rep. No. 95-595, at 4 (1977), reprinted in 1978 U.S.C.C.A.N. 5963, 5966, charged with preventing fraud and abuse and with “fill [ing] the vacuum” caused by possible creditor inactivity. H.R.Rep. No. 95-595, at 100 (1977), reprinted in 1978 U.S.C.C.A.N. 5963, 6061. The establishment, maintenance, and supervision of the panel of bankruptcy trustees is the United States Trustee’s “primary function, and his most important contribution to the administration of t”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[a] case may be reopened in the court in which such case was closed to administer assets, to accord relief to the debtor, or for other cause.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“issue any order, process or judgment that is necessary or appropriate to carry out the provisions of [the Bankruptcy Code].”
2 later decisions 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.