Covey’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 district ·
Relationships
Relies on United States v. American Trucking Associations · United States v. Shreveport Grain & Elevator Co. · United States v. Hartwell · In Re All Media Properties, Inc. · 63 Ill. App. 3d 639 - Stensel v. Stensel
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the dispute is over the existence of the debt, not its amount; (2) the dispute can be examined without substantial litigation of law or fact; and, (c) the interest of the Debtor in avoiding bankruptcy outweighs the interest of the creditors, at p. 883.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(4) claim means— (A) right to payment, whether or not such right is reduced to judgment, liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable, secured, or unsecured_ (Emphasis added).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(b) An involuntary case is commenced by the filing with the bankruptcy court of a petition under chapter 7 or 11 of this title— (1) by three or more entities, each of which is either a holder of a claim against such person that is not contingent as to liability or an indenture trustee representing such a holder, if such claims aggregate at least $5,000 more than the value of any lien on property of the debtor securing such claims held by the holders of such claims; (2) if there are fewer than 12 such holders, excluding any employee or insider of such person and any transferee of a transfer that is voidable under section 544, 545, 547, 548, 549, or 724(a) of this title, by one or more of such holders that hold in the aggregate at least $5,000 of such claims.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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