Bernard v. Coyne’s Empirical Analysis
40 F.3d 1028 · 1994
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Bernard v. Sheaffer (1996), John Douglas Smith John Douglas Smith v. Peter Kennedy (2000)
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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.
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 341
Relies on Taylor v. Freeland & Kronz · Hyman v. Plotkin · Reed Schwaber v. Reed T Reed a Schwaber · Matter of Kazi · Kennedy v. Pikush
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“legitimate grounds for believing that further investigation will prove fruitful.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Hurdle · In Re Friedheim“Unmatured life insurance policies (including endowment and annuity policies), but not the loan value of such policies, are exempt without making a claim.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no risks, contingencies or unknown events”
2 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.