In the Matter of Security Investment Properties, Inc., Bankrupt. Georgia Power Company v. Security Investment Properties, Inc., in the Matter of Guardian Properties-Athens, Inc., Bankrupt. Georgia Power Company v. Guardian Properties-Athens, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
559 F.2d 1321 · 1977
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2010
5 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Ohio v. Kentucky · Thompson v. Magnolia Petroleum Co. · Super Tire Engineering Co. v. McCorkle · Earley v. DiCenso
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for a business,. . . telephone numbers constitute a unique property interest, the value of which increases as the number becomes widely known through publication in guidebooks, posting on billboards, and imprinting on publicity items.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““While a public utility has a duty to serve, neither its history of past service nor its franchise to serve in the future may fix upon it a duty to provide unsecured future service to a Chapter XI debtor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“For the Bankruptcy court to exercise summary jurisdiction over property, the debtor or his trustee must have actual or constructive possession of the property in question.... (citations omitted)”
1 later decision 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.