In Re Silver’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Little Creek Development Co. v. Commonwealth Mortgage Corp. (1986), In Re Arkansas Communities, Inc., and International Land Corp. Robert J. Brown and R.J. Brown, P.A. v. Maurice Mitchell (1987)
2 federal appellate · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 1927
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · Colorado Energy Supply Inc National Acceptance Company of America v. Price · Matter of Stanley Hotel, Inc. · In Re Perez
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] holding to the contrary would ignore the bankruptcy court's inherent authority to assess attorney's fees and expenses against those who willfully abuse the judicial process.”
1 later decision 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.