Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare v. Davenport’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
412 federal appellate · 166 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,230 later decisions (31 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Dewsnup v. Timm (1992), Johnson v. Home State Bank (1991)
412 federal appellate · 166 district · 53 state decisions — followed in 13 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
reviewedCommonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare v. Johnson-Allen (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 101 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005) · 11 U.S.C. § 1328 · 11 U.S.C. § 362 · 11 U.S.C. § 523 · 11 U.S.C. § 701
Relies on Younger v. Harris · United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · Griffin v. Oceanic Contractors, Inc. · Kelly v. Robinson
Cited together with Kelly v. Robinson · Johnson v. Home State Bank · United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Grogan v. Garner · Dewsnup v. Timm
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 2,230 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(A) right to payment, whether or not such right is reduced to judgment, liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable, secured, or unsecured; or (B) right to an equitable remedy for breach of performance if such breach gives rise to a right to payment, whether or not such right to an equitable remedy is reduced to judgment, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, secured, or unsecured.”
143 later decisions quote this exact passage“express a deep reluctance to interpret a statutory provision so as to render superfluous other provisions in the same enactment.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We will not read the Bankruptcy Code to erode past bankruptcy practice absent a clear indication that Congress intended such a departure.”
8 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.