Gray v. English’s Empirical Analysis
30 F.3d 1319 · 1994
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Kravit, Gass & Weber, S.C. v. Michel (1998), Prince Electro-Wire Products Inc v. Sirote & Permutt Pc (1994)
5 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. § 101 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005) · 11 U.S.C. § 327 · 11 U.S.C. § 328
Relies on Meinhard v. Salmon · Woods v. City Nat Bank & Trust Co of Chicago · Wolf v. Weinstein · Weil v. Neary · American United Mut Life Ins Co v. City of Avon Park Fla
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he court may deny allowance of compensation for services and reimbursement of expenses of a professional person employed under section 327 or 1103 of this title if, at any time during such professional person’s employment under section 327 or 1103 of this title, such professional person is not a disinterested person, or represents or holds an interest adverse to the interest of the estate with respect to the matter on which such professional person is employed.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n exercising the discretion granted by the statute we think the [bankruptcy] court should lean strongly toward denial of fees, and if the past benefit to the wrongdoer fiduciary can be quantified, to require disgorgement of compensation previously paid that fiduciary even before the conflict arose.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Paige · In Re Unitcast, Inc.“[i]n the absence of actual injury or prejudice to the debtor's estate, this sanction [denial of fees] should not be rigidly applied.”
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.