In Re Ford’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 150 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Thomas Southtrust Bank of Alabama Na v. Thomas, Greenblatt v. Ford (1981)
12 federal appellate · 9 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. § 110 · 11 U.S.C. § 363 · 11 U.S.C. § 365 · 11 U.S.C. § 522 · 11 U.S.C. § 541
Relies on Tyler v. United States · White v. Stump · Board of Trade of City of Chicago v. Johnson · Bird v. United States · Myers v. Matley
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 150 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The trustee merely obtains and retains custody of the debtor’s undivided interest consisting of the same unities, intact and unaltered, as they existed immediately prior to the filing of the petition, until such time as that interest, still intact and unaltered, is exempted from the estate.... ””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“(2)(A) any property that is exempt under Federal law, other than subsection (d) of this section, or State or local law that is applicable on the date of the filing of the petition at the place in which the debtor’s domicile has been located for the 180 days immediately preceding the date of the filing of the petition, or for a longer portion of such 180-day period than in any other place; and (B) any interest in property in which the debtor had, immediately before the commencement of the case, an interest as a tenant by the entirety or joint tenant to the extent that such interest as a tenant by the entirety or joint tenant is exempt from process under applicable nonbankruptcy law. (Emphasis added.)”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“all legal or equitable interests of the debtor in property as of the commencement of the case.”
5 later decisions 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.