In the Matter of Westec Corporation, Debtor. Florida Institute of Technology v. Orville S. Carpenter, Trustee of Westec Corporation, Debtor’s Empirical Analysis
460 F.2d 1139 · 1972
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2008
3 federal appellate ·
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. § 501 · 11 U.S.C. § 511 (§ 704 of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005) · 11 U.S.C. § 548
Relies on Segal v. Rochelle · Gaunt v. United States · In re Imperial "400" National, Inc. · Central States Electric Corp. v. Austrian · Texas Co. v. Hauptman
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Until otherwise ordered by the judge, an order approving a petition shall operate as a stay of a prior pending bankruptcy, mortgage foreclosure, or equity receivership proceeding, and of any act or other proceeding to enforce a lien against the debtor's property.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, the court in which a petition is filed shall, for the purposes of this chapter, have exclusive jurisdiction of the debtor and its property, wherever located.”
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.