Florida Department of Revenue v. Piccadilly Cafeterias, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
554 U.S. 33 · 2008
Citation profile
145 federal appellate · 14 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 403 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc. (2009), Nken v. Holder (2009)
145 federal appellate · 14 district · 25 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 11 U.S.C. § 1101 · 11 U.S.C. § 1123 · 11 U.S.C. § 1127 · 11 U.S.C. § 1146
Relies on Russello v. United States · Robinson v. Shell Oil Co. · Lorillard v. Pons · Correction Officer Porters v. Ronald Nussle · National Labor Relations Board v. Bildisco & Bildisco
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 403 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are but tools available for the resolution of a doubt,”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n ... [a sale] scenario, the debtor typically submits for confirmation a plan of liquidation ... providing for the distribution of the proceeds resulting from the sale,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] subchapter heading cannot substitute for the operative text of the statute.”
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.