Schnabel Serrano’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Black v. United States Postal Service (1997), Steinle v. Warren (1985)
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 School Board of Richmond v. State Board of Education · United States v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad · In Re Freeman · Danning v. Brunswick Corp.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We find Collier’s view very logical and we adopt it here. Regardless of whether the trustee assumes or rejects the lease, he has title to the underlying premises... Rejection merely frees the estate and underlying premises from the lease obligation so that the trustee may operate the premises as profitably as possible for benefit of the estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the tenant [remaining in possession] is injured by the modification of his rights he is deemed a creditor and has a remedy against the bankrupt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the trustee may charge and recover a reasonable rental for the demised premises until the end of the term,”
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.