Katchen v. Landy’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
337 federal appellate · 156 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,961 later decisions (29 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore (1979), Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. (1982)
337 federal appellate · 156 district · 38 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedKatchen v. Landy (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Pepper v. Litton · Local Loan Co. v. Hunt · Beacon Theaters Inc v. C Westover · Dairy Queen, Inc. v. Wood · Chicot County Drainage District v. Baxter State Bank
Cited together with Katchen v. Landy · Granfinanciera, S.A. v. Nordberg · Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · Langenkamp v. Culp · Dairy Queen, Inc. v. Wood
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 1,961 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n cases of bankruptcy, many incidental questions arise in the course of administering the bankrupt estate, which would ordinarily be pure cases at law, and in respect of their facts triable by jury, but, as belonging to the bankruptcy proceedings, they become cases over which the bankruptcy court, which acts as a court of equity, exercises exclusive control. Thus a claim of debt or damages against the bankrupt is investigated by chancery methods.”
79 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“prompt and effectual administration and settlement of the estate of all bankrupts within a limited period.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The normal rules of res judicata and collateral estoppel apply to the decisions of bankruptcy courts.”
10 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.