Palmer v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 8 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Wynn & Wynn, P.C. v. Massachusetts Commission against Discrimination (2000), Vittands v. Sudduth (2000)
6 federal appellate · 8 district · 31 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. § 362
Relies on Soto v. United States · Coloma Community School District v. Berry · DataComm Interface v. COMPUTERWORLD, INC. ADELSON · McNamara v. Honeyman · Max Sugarman Funeral Home, Inc. v. A.D.B. Investors
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the most common of which are 16 (1) actual or threatened litigation against the debtor; (2) a purported transfer of all or substantially all of the debtor's property; (3) insolvency or other unmanageable indebtedness on the part of the debtor; (4) a special relationship between the debtor and the transferee; and (5) retention by the debtor of the property involved in the putative transfer. 17 Palmer v. Murphy, 42 Mass.App.Ct. 334, 345-46, 677 N.E.2d 247 (1997) (citing FDIC v. Anchor Properties, 13 F.3d 27 , 32 (1st Cir.1994) (interpreting the UFCA)).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Any party aggrieved by a decision on a motion pursuant to section six F may appeal as hereinafter provided. If the matter arises in the superior, land, housing, or probate court, the appeal shall be to the single justice of the appeals court at the next sitting thereof [emphasis supplied],...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“actual intent... to hinder, delay or defraud either present or future creditors.”
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.