Crocker v. Crocker’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
2 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 101 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005) · 11 U.S.C. § 105 · 11 U.S.C. § 350 · 11 U.S.C. § 362 · 28 U.S.C. § 158 · 28 U.S.C. § 2283
Relies on Fleet Data Processing Corp. v. Branch (In Re Bank of New England Corp.) · Erti v. Paine Webber Jackson & Curtis, Inc. · Citizens Bank & Trust Co. v. Case · Boylan v. George E. Bumpus, Jr. Construction Co. (In Re George E. Bumpus, Jr. Construction Co.) · Swanson v. Comm'r
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the length of time that the case was closed ...; whether a nonbankruptcy forum, such as state court, has the ability to determine the issue sought to be posed by the debtor ...; whether prior litigation in bankruptcy court implicitly determined that the state court would be the appropriate forum to determine the rights, post bankruptcy, of the parties; whether any parties would be prejudiced were the case reopened or not reopened; the extent of the benefit which the debt- or seeks to achieve by reopening; and whether it is clear at the outset that the debtor would not be entitled to any relief after the case were reopened.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Dalezios“A court of the United States may not grant an injunction to stay proceedings in a State court except as expressly authorized by Act of Congress, or where necessary in aid of its jurisdiction, or to protect or effectuate its judgments. 28 U.S.C. § 2283 . (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the bankruptcy court had the authority under § 105(a) to stay the state court action and did so to preserve its jurisdiction over the dischargeability issues to be filed by Debtors in the adversary proceeding within the reopened bankruptcy case.”
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.