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Patterson v. Shumate’s Empirical Analysis

1992

Citation profile

2,178
cited by 2,178 later decisions
12
cited 12 times by the Supreme Court
9
states following
November 2024
most recently cited

324 federal appellate · 119 district · 35 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 2,178 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2024 · most notably BFP v. Resolution Trust Corporation (1994), United States v. Granderson (1994)

324 federal appellate · 119 district · 35 state decisions

1.2k01992200020102020decided

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 Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)

Relationships

Applies 11 U.S.C. § 108 · 11 U.S.C. § 109 · 11 U.S.C. § 1125 · 11 U.S.C. § 362 · 11 U.S.C. § 522 · 11 U.S.C. § 523 · 11 U.S.C. § 541 · 11 U.S.C. § 903

Relies on United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Butner v. United States · Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · Bibby v. United States · Dewsnup v. Timm

Cited together with United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Butner v. United States · Guidry v. Sheet Metal Workers National Pension Fund · Connecticut National Bank v. Germain · Union Bank v. Wolas

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 2,178 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A restriction on the transfer of a beneficial interest of the debtor in a trust that is enforceable under applicable nonbankrupt-cy law is enforceable in a case under this title.”
    53 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Fullmer Fullmer v. W Rupp · Leadbetter Sicherman v. Ohio Public Employees Deferred Compensation Program
  2. “enforceable under applicable nonbankruptcy law”
    32 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Leadbetter Sicherman v. Ohio Public Employees Deferred Compensation Program · In the Matter of Robert L. Branch, Debtor-Appellant
  3. “[e]ach pension plan shall provide that benefits provided under the plan may not be assigned or alienated.”
    14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Wis. Province Jesus v. Cassem · Healey v. Meinen (In Re Meinen)

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.