Matter of Goldsmith’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2018
2 federal appellate · 3 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. § 303 · 11 U.S.C. § 305 · 11 U.S.C. § 547 · 11 U.S.C. § 548
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · United States v. Diebold, Inc. · First Nat. Bank of Ariz. v. Cities Service Co. · Quinn v. Syracuse Model Neighborhood Corp. · Pirie v. Chicago Title & Trust Co.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“particularly difficult where there is only one creditor involved, since the general rule is that 'if a debtor is not paying a single debt then the case should be dismissed since a creditor cannot prove the debtor is generally not paying "its debts”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“obvious that the use of the bankruptcy court as a routine collection device would quickly paralyze”
1 later decision 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.