Reading Company v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
144 federal appellate · 52 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 833 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2023 · most notably National Labor Relations Board v. Bildisco & Bildisco (1984), Cramer v. Mammoth Mart, Inc. (1976)
144 federal appellate · 52 district · 8 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 103 · 11 U.S.C. § 104 · 11 U.S.C. § 501 · 11 U.S.C. § 502 · 11 U.S.C. § 701 · 11 U.S.C. § 702 · 11 U.S.C. § 721 · 11 U.S.C. § 722
Relies on Nathanson v. National Labor Relations Board · Sampsell v. Imperial Paper & Color Corp. · Nicholas v. United States · McNulta v. Lochridge
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 833 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“decisive, statutory objective: fairness to all persons having claims against an insolvent.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“§ 503 (b) After notice and a hearing, there shall be allowed, administrative expenses ... including— (1)(A) the actual, necessary costs and expenses of preserving the estate, including wages, salaries or commissions for services rendered after the commencement of the case[.]”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'actual and necessary costs' should include costs ordinarily incident to operation of a business, and not be limited to costs without which rehabilitation would be impossible.”
20 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.