Specialty Mills, Inc. v. Citizens State Bank’s Empirical Analysis
51 F.3d 770 · 1995
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Zale Corporation Feld v. Zale Corporation (1995), Halper v. Halper (1999)
12 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1334 · 28 U.S.C. § 1452 · 28 U.S.C. § 157
Relies on United States v. Security Industrial Bank · Florida v. Royer · Pacor Inc. v. Higgins · Washington Post Co. v. Rebozo · Matter of Wood v. P Wood & Pa
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he test for determining whether a civil proceeding is related to bankruptcy is whether the outcome of that proceeding could conceivably have any effect on the estate being administered in bankruptcy * * *. An action is related to bankruptcy if the outcome could alter the debtor’s rights, liabilities, options, or freedom of action * * * and which in any way impacts upon the handling and administration of the bankrupt estate.””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he test for determining whether a civil proceeding is related to bankruptcy is whether the outcome of that proceeding could conceivably have any effect on the estate being administered in the bankruptcy.... An action is related to bankruptcy if the outcome could alter the debtor's rights, liabilities, options, or freedom of action ... and which in any way impacts upon the handling and administration of the bankruptcy estate.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“arise[s] only in bankruptcy or involve[s] a right created by federal bankruptcy law. Id. (citation omitted); see 28 U.S.C. § 157 (b)(2). Related proceedings are non-core. They "do not invoke a substantive right created by federal bankruptcy law and could exist outside of a bankruptcy, although they may be related to a bankruptcy.”
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.