Hughes Alonzo Robinson v. Tommy C. Mann, Trustee’s Empirical Analysis
339 F.2d 547 · 1964
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Beezley v. California Land Title Co. (1993), Judd v. Wolfe (1996)
22 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Thompson v. Magnolia Petroleum Co. · Mueller v. Nugent · Cline v. Kaplan · In re Brill
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he circumstances attendant to the failure of counsel to have originally listed the creditor, the degree of disruption which would result from allowing the amendment and whether the creditor would be prejudiced thereby.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Zibro · In Re Mitchell“That section is addressed to creditors, not to the bankrupt. Its primary purpose is to prod creditors to seasonably present their claims, not to force bankrupts to seasonably present their amendments. A bankruptcy court is a court of equity, and in an appropriate case its inherent equity powers may be invoked to allow amendment after six months. 339 F.2d at 550 . 4”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[f]lagrantly ignoring Birkett , the Fifth Circuit held that schedules could be amended nunc pro tunc in extraordinary circumstances that appealed to the equitable discretion of the bankruptcy court ....”
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.