In re Trans World Airlines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
322 F.3d 283 · 2003
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Precision Industries, Inc. v. Qualitech Steel SBQ, LLC (2003), In Re General Motors Corp. (2009)
12 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
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. § 363
Relies on Nathanson v. National Labor Relations Board · Van Huffel v. Harkelrode · MacArthur Co. v. Johns-Manville Corp. · Leckie Smokeless Coal Company
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hile the interests of the EEOC and the ... class [of plaintiffs] in the assets of [the debtor’s] bankruptcy estate are not interests in property in the sense that they are not in rem interests, the reasoning of Leckie and Folger Adam suggests that they are interests in property within the meaning of [§ ] 363(f) in the sense that they arise from the property being sold.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To allow the [plaintiff] to assert successor liability claims against [the purchaser] while limiting other creditors’ recourse to the proceeds of the asset .sale would be inconsistent with the Bankruptcy Code’s priority scheme.”)) (citation, and footnote reference explaining why”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(5) such entity could be compelled, in a legal or equitable proceeding, to accept a money satisfaction of such interest.”
3 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.