Bank of Marin v. England’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
244 federal appellate · 60 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,365 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2025 · most notably Powell v. McCormack (1969), Mennonite Board of Missions v. Adams (1983)
244 federal appellate · 60 district · 51 state decisions — followed in 14 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
reviewedBank of Marin v. England (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 103 · 11 U.S.C. § 110
Relies on Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Aetna Life Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Haworth · Pepper v. Litton · United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. · David Muskrat v.
Cited together with Pepper v. Litton · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Local Loan Co. v. Hunt · Securities & Exchange Commission v. United States Realty & Improvement Co.
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 1,365 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“overriding consideration that equitable principles govern the exercise of bankruptcy jurisdiction.”
38 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The trustee succeeds only to such rights as the bankrupt possessed; and the trustee is subject to all claims and defenses which might have been asserted against the bankrupt but for the filing of the petition.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The kind of notice required is one 'reasonably calculated, under all the circumstances, to apprise the interested parties of the pendency of the action.'”
6 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.