Celotex Corporation v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
267 federal appellate · 157 district · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,971 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Travelers Indemnity Co. v. Bailey (2009), Jennings v. Rodriguez (2018)
267 federal appellate · 157 district · 58 state decisions — followed in 15 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
reviewedEdwards v. Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 105 · 11 U.S.C. § 362 · 11 U.S.C. § 502 · 11 U.S.C. § 510 · 11 U.S.C. § 541 · 11 U.S.C. § 544 · 11 U.S.C. § 547 · 11 U.S.C. § 548
Relies on Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co.
Cited together with Pacor Inc. v. Higgins · Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · Things Remembered, Inc. v. Petrarca · Granfinanciera, S.A. v. Nordberg · 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 1,971 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Congress intended to grant comprehensive jurisdiction to the bankruptcy courts so that they might deal efficiently and expeditiously with all matters connected with the bankruptcy estate.”
67 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the outcome of that proceeding could conceivably have any effect on the estate being administered in bankruptcy.”
64 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Notwithstanding any Act of Congress that confers exclusive jurisdiction on a court or courts other than the district courts, the district courts shall have original but not exclusive jurisdiction of all civil proceedings arising under title 11, or arising in or related to cases under title 11.”
48 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.