Kopelman v. Halvajian’s Empirical Analysis
663 F.2d 463 · 1981
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Moody v. Amoco Oil Co. (1984), Sudler v. Chester Housing Authority (In Re Sudler) (1987)
6 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 365
Relies on Bank of Marin v. England · Avis Rent A Car System, Inc. v. City of Chicago · Smith v. Hoboken Rr Warehouse & Ss Connecting Co · Finn v. Meighan · In Re Lawrence N. Jolly, Debtor. Chattanooga Memorial Park v. C. Kenneth Still, Chapter Xiii Trustee
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.
“When a debtor’s legal and equitable interests in property are terminated prior to the filing of the petition with the Bankruptcy Court that was intended to preserve the debtor’s interest in such property, the Bankruptcy Court cannot then cultivate rights where none can grow.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Notwithstanding a provision in an executo-ry contract or unexpired lease, ... an exec-utory contract or unexpired lease of the debtor may not be terminated or modified ... at any time after the commencement of the case solely because of a provision in such contract or lease that is conditioned on— ‡ # (B) the commencement of a case under this title[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““In each of these cases, the circumstances were such that if effect were given to a section 70(b) termination, the debtor’s estate would be deprived of the essential res to effect reorganization, and thus the purposes of the Act would be frustrated and the reorganization of the debtor thwarted.””
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.