BFP v. Resolution Trust Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
389 federal appellate · 122 district · 160 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,104 later decisions (29 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Associates Commercial Corp. v. Rash (1997), Gonzales v. Oregon (2006)
389 federal appellate · 122 district · 160 state decisions — followed in 26 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 101 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005) · 11 U.S.C. § 107 · 11 U.S.C. § 346 · 11 U.S.C. § 361 · 11 U.S.C. § 363 · 11 U.S.C. § 365 · 11 U.S.C. § 522 · 11 U.S.C. § 541
Relies on United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Butner v. United States · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc. · Vandygriff v. Phillips
Cited together with United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Butner v. United States · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Connecticut National Bank v. Germain · Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.
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 2,104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'radically readjust[ ] the balance of state and national authority, those charged with the duty of legislating [must be] reasonably explicit'”
78 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We emphasize that our opinion today covers only mortgage foreclosures of real estate. The considerations bearing upon other foreclosures and forced sales (to satisfy tax liens, for example) may be different.”
47 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. In re Harris · Oj Osborn Oj v.“[I]t is generally presumed that Congress acts intentionally and purposely when it includes particular language in one section of a statute but omits it in another.”
29 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.