Langenkamp v. Culp’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
117 federal appellate · 103 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,325 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably United Student Aid Funds, Inc. v. Espinosa (2010), Stern v. Marshall (2011)
117 federal appellate · 103 district · 8 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 547
Relies on Granfinanciera, S.A. v. Nordberg · Katchen v. Landy · Katchen v. Landy · Insurance Co. of Pennsylvania v. Ben Cooper, Inc.
Cited together with Granfinanciera, S.A. v. Nordberg · Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · Katchen v. Landy · Katchen v. Landy · Schoenthal v. Irving Trust Co.
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 1,325 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[B]y filing a claim against a bankruptcy estate the creditor triggers the process of `allowance and disallowance of claims,' thereby subjecting himself to the bankruptcy court's equitable power.”
85 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although petitioner might be entitled to a jury on the issue of preference if he presented no claim in the bankruptcy proceeding and awaited a federal plenary action by the trustee, when the same issue arises as part of the process of allowance and disal-lowance of claims, it is triable in equity ... Because petitioners here ... have not filed claims against the estate, respondent’s fraudulent conveyance action does not arise ‘as part of the process of allowance and disallowance of claims.’”
6 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.