Bankr. L. Rep. P 68,200’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 2012 · most notably In re Energy Cooperative, Inc. (1989), In Re Best Products Co., Inc. (1994)
3 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Protective Committee for Independent Stockholders of TMT Trailer Ferry, Inc. v. Anderson · Case v. Los Angeles Lumber Products Co. · Consolidated Rock Products Co. v. Du Bois · Houchins v. KQED, Inc. · Group of Institutional Investors v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the value of the proposed compromise distribution is reasonably equivalent to the value of the potential claim which has been surrendered or modified by the settlement which has been achieved.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In the Matter of Energy Cooperative, Inc., Debtor. Appeals of Koch Refining Co., Koch Fuels, Inc., Wood River Oil & Refining Co., Conoco Inc., Mobil Oil Corporation, Chevron U.S.A. Inc., Gulf Oil Corporation, Socap International, Ltd., U.S.A. Rookwood, Inc., Kerr-Mcgee Refining Corp., Triangle Refineries, Peerless Distributing, Valero Refining F/k/a Saber Refining, Union Oil Company of Calif., Tenneco Oil Company, Oils, Inc., Bell Fuels, Inc., Moore McCormack Enron Oil Trading & Transportation Company, and Societe Nationale Pour La Recherche, La Production, Le Transport, La Transformation Commercialisation Des Hydrocarbures ("Sonatrach"), 1 · In Re Texaco Inc.“[I]t is not the function of this court to determine the merits of a single contested issue but rather to determine whether the plan as a whole is equitable and fair in light of all of the issues which have been contested.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In the Matter of Energy Cooperative, Inc., Debtor. Appeals of Koch Refining Co., Koch Fuels, Inc., Wood River Oil & Refining Co., Conoco Inc., Mobil Oil Corporation, Chevron U.S.A. Inc., Gulf Oil Corporation, Socap International, Ltd., U.S.A. Rookwood, Inc., Kerr-Mcgee Refining Corp., Triangle Refineries, Peerless Distributing, Valero Refining F/k/a Saber Refining, Union Oil Company of Calif., Tenneco Oil Company, Oils, Inc., Bell Fuels, Inc., Moore McCormack Enron Oil Trading & Transportation Company, and Societe Nationale Pour La Recherche, La Production, Le Transport, La Transformation Commercialisation Des Hydrocarbures ("Sonatrach"), 1 · In re Energy Cooperative, Inc.“whether or not the terms of the proposed compromise fall within the reasonable range of litigation possibilities.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In the Matter of Energy Cooperative, Inc., Debtor. Appeals of Koch Refining Co., Koch Fuels, Inc., Wood River Oil & Refining Co., Conoco Inc., Mobil Oil Corporation, Chevron U.S.A. Inc., Gulf Oil Corporation, Socap International, Ltd., U.S.A. Rookwood, Inc., Kerr-Mcgee Refining Corp., Triangle Refineries, Peerless Distributing, Valero Refining F/k/a Saber Refining, Union Oil Company of Calif., Tenneco Oil Company, Oils, Inc., Bell Fuels, Inc., Moore McCormack Enron Oil Trading & Transportation Company, and Societe Nationale Pour La Recherche, La Production, Le Transport, La Transformation Commercialisation Des Hydrocarbures ("Sonatrach"), 1 · In re Energy Cooperative, Inc.
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.