Dial Business Forms Inc v. D’s Empirical Analysis
341 F.3d 738 · 2003
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Travelers Indemnity Co. v. Bailey (2009), in Re: Optical Technologies, Inc. v. Larson Pharmacy Inc. (2005)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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
Relies on Nantucket Investors II v. California Federal Bank · Citizens Bank & Trust Co. v. Case · Ucc v. General Electric Credit Corporation · Ring Construction Corp. v. Secretary of War · Terex Corporation Terex Corporation v. Metropolitan Life Insurance 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] bankruptcy court's interpretation of a confirmed plan should be reviewed under the abuse of discretion standard.”
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.