Zolfo, Cooper & Co. v. Sunbeam-Oster Co.’s Empirical Analysis
50 F.3d 253 · 1995
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably In Re: Cendant Corporation Prides Litigation (2001), Barjon v. Dalton (1997)
16 federal appellate · 10 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 11 U.S.C. § 328 · 11 U.S.C. § 330 · 28 U.S.C. § 157 · 28 U.S.C. § 158
Relies on California v. ARC America Corp. · Gulf Offshore Company v. Mobil Oil Corporation · Lindy Bros. Builders, Inc. of Phila. v. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. · Universal Minerals, Inc. v. C. A. Hughes & Co. · Ziffrin, Inc. v. United States
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the court may allow compensation different from the compensation provided under such terms and conditions after the conclusion of such employment, if such terms and conditions prove to have been improvident in light of developments not capable of being anticipated at the time of the fixing of such terms and conditions.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f the order [approving a professional's retention] does not expressly and unambiguously state specific terms and conditions ( e.g. specific hourly rates or contingency fee arrangements) that are being approved pursuant to the first sentence of section 328(a), then the terms and conditions are merely those that apply in the absence of specific agreement.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“on the applicant to ensure that the court notes explicitly the terms and conditions [of the retention] if the applicant expects them to be established at that early point.”
3 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.