In Re Mastercraft Record Plating, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Greystone III Joint Venture Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Greystone III Joint Venture (1991), Greystone III Joint Venture Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Greystone III Joint Venture (1991)
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. § 1122 · 11 U.S.C. § 502
Relies on Pepper v. Litton · Heiser v. Woodruff · Benjamin Margolis and William McK Shongut, Claimants-Appellants v. Nazareth Fair Grounds & Farmers Market, Inc., Debtor-Appellee · Matter of Farrell · In Re Oakton Beach & Tennis Club Real Estate Ltd. Partnership
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although § 1122(a) deals with the placing of dissimilar claims in the same class, it by necessary implication deals with the placing of similar claims in different classes. There is no authority for classifying similar claims differently other than § 1122(b) just discussed. General unsecured claims are all alike, whether they are disputed or not, whether over or under $20,000. Thus, unless Bekins or Keel consents to a different and/or lesser treatment than that of other general unsecured creditors they may not be separately classified. Classification cannot be used to divide like claims into multiple classes in order to create a consenting class so as to permit confirmation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Generally [the court] will afford res judicata effect to a judgment and allow a claim on the basis of the judgment without looking behind the judgment. However, in a narrowly defined group of situations, the bankruptcy court may and does look behind the judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]ny controversy or claim arising out of, or related to, thus [sic] Agreement or the breach hereof, shall be settled by binding arbitration ... by a panel of three (3) arbitrators-”
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.