In Re Crabtree’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably S.I. Acquisition, Inc. v. Eastway Delivery Service, Inc. (1987), Auto-Train Corp. v. Midland-Ross Corp. (1987)
3 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 303
Relies on Baxter v. Palmigiano · Bullock v. United States · Weatherford v. Bursey · Acosta v. United States · Fallen v. United States
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are so intermingled and entwined that their separate assets and liabilities cannot be ascertained, and any attempt to separate their financial affairs would consume substantial assets of the estate with no considerable likelihood that such an exercise would be successful.”
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.