In Re Leonard’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2007 · most notably In Re Henderson (1996), McLemore v. Thomasson (In Re Thomasson) (1986)
1 federal appellate · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 1334 · 28 U.S.C. § 1406 · 28 U.S.C. § 1412 · 28 U.S.C. § 151 (Bankruptcy Amendments) · 28 U.S.C. § 157
Relies on Council of & for the Blind of Delaware County Valley, Inc. v. Regan · Armstrong v. Rainier Financial Services Co. (In Re Greiner) · Moody v. Empire Life Insurance (In Re Moody) · In Re International Filter Corp. · Matter of Lakeside Utilities
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) The bankruptcy court of a district in which is filed a case or proceeding laying venue in the wrong ... district may, in the interest of justice and for the convenience of the parties, retain such case or proceeding, or may transfer, under Section 1475 of this title, such case or proceeding to any other district ...”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A district court may transfer a case or proceeding under title 11 to a district court for another district, in the interest of justice or for the convenience of the parties (emphasis added).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A bankruptcy court may transfer a case under Title 11 or a proceeding arising under or related to such a case to a bankruptcy court for another district, in the interest of justice and for the convenience of the parties, [emphasis added]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.