Fix v. First State Bank’s Empirical Analysis
559 F.3d 803 · 2009
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2020
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 348
Relies on Segal v. Rochelle · Nelson v. WEB Water Development Ass'n, Inc. · Whetzal v. Alderson · Westmoreland Human Opportunities, Inc. v. Walsh · Holzer v. Dakota Speedway, 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]s the second court of appellate review, we conduct an independent review of the bankruptcy court's judgment applying the same standards of review as the district court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“at least four of the five causes of action Fix brought against the Bank in March 2006 ... have sufficient roots in Fix's pre-bankruptcy activities to be considered property of the bankruptcy estate, even though the Bank's alleged breach of its promise occurred post-petition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Murray v. 3M Co.“[A] cause of action will be 'property of the estate' if it has sufficient roots in the debtor's pre-bankruptcy activities and is not entangled with the debtor's 'fresh start,' regardless of when the claim accrues under state law”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Murray v. 3M Co.
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.