In Re Butchman’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Kopelman v. Halvajian (1981), Matter of LaPaglia (1981)
2 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. § 507
Relies on Matter of GSVC Restaurant Corp. · Barnard v. Jersey · Jeshion v. Holzer
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since the Chapter 13 petition was filed solely to cure the existing mortgage default and to continue the mortgage in effect, such purpose was frustrated and made academic by the valid prepetition mortgage foreclosure sale. When a debtor’s legal and equitable interests in property are terminated prior to the filing of the petition with the Bankruptcy Court that was intended to preserve the debtor’s interest in such property, the Bankruptcy Court cannot then cultivate rights where none can grow. See GSVC Restaurant Corp., 3 B.R. 491 , 6 Bankr.Ct.Dec. 134 (S.D.N.Y.1980) aff’d D.C. N.Y. April 18, 1980) Goettel, D.J.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Gray · Kopelman v. Halvajian“[T]he foreclosure sale effectively cut off the debtors' legal title or equity of redemption in the mortgaged premises.”
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.