In Re Saberman’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently December 2008 · most notably Einoder v. Mount Greenwood Bank (In Re Einoder) (1985), Klein v. Civale & Trovato, Inc. (1994)
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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. § 101 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005) · 11 U.S.C. § 1302 · 11 U.S.C. § 544 · 11 U.S.C. § 545 · 11 U.S.C. § 546
Relies on Fischer v. Pauline Oil & Gas Co. · In Re Carter · United States v. Moscow Fire Insurance · Von Tobel v. Ostrander · Decatur Bridge Co. v. Standart
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) The rights and powers of a trustee under sections 544, 545, and 549 of this title are subject to any generally applicable law that permits perfection of an interest in property to be effective against an entity that acquires rights in such property before the date of such perfection....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“No contractor shall be allowed to enforce such lien against or to the prejudice of any other creditor or incumbrancer or purchaser, unless within four months after completion, ... he shall either bring suit to enforce his lien therefor or shall file in the office of the recorder of deeds of the county in which the building, erection or other improvement to be charged with the lien is situated, a claim for lien.... Such claim for lien may be filed at any time after the contract is made, and as to the owner may be filed at any time after the contract is made, and as to the owner may be filed at any time after the contract is made and within two years after completion of said contract. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Section 545. Statutory Liens “The trustee may avoid the fixing of a statutory lien on property of the debtor to the extent that such lien— (2) is not perfected or enforceable on the date of the filing of the petition against a bona fide purchaser that purchases such property on the date of the filing of the petition, whether or not such a purchaser exists; .... ””
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.