United Sav. Assn. of Tex. v. Timbers of Inwood Forest Associates, Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
729 federal appellate · 246 district · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4,411 later decisions (93 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. (1989), Bailey v. United States (1995)
729 federal appellate · 246 district · 81 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited Savings Ass'n v. Timbers of Inwood Forest Associates, Ltd. (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 101 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005) · 11 U.S.C. § 1121 · 11 U.S.C. § 1129 · 11 U.S.C. § 361 · 11 U.S.C. § 362 · 11 U.S.C. § 502 · 11 U.S.C. § 552 · 11 U.S.C. § 726
Relies on Butner v. United States · Pilot Life Insurance v. Dedeaux · Kelly v. Robinson · Vanston Bondholders Protective Committee v. Green
Cited together with United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Butner v. United States · Dewsnup v. Timm · Norwest Bank Worthington v. Ahlers · Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
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 4,411 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“necessary to an effective reorganization”
240 later decisions quote this exact passage“What this requires is not merely a showing that if there is conceivably to be an effective reorganization, this property will be needed for it; but that the property is essential for an effective reorganization that is in prospect. This means, as many lower courts, including the en banc court in this case, have properly said, that there must be “a reasonable possibility of a successful reorganization within a reasonable time.””
72 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(2) For the purpose of this subsection, the condition that a plan be fair and equitable with respect to a class includes the following requirements: (A) With respect to a class of secured claims, the plan provides— !jc sfc $ 3(c Jjc )jt (i) (II.) that each holder of a claim of such class receive on account of such claim deferred cash payments totaling at least the allowed amount of such claim, of a value, as of the effective date of the plan, of at least the value of such holder’s interest in the estate’s interest in such property.”
10 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.