Holtkamp v. Littlefield’s Empirical Analysis
669 F.2d 505 · 1982
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 14 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 289 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably A.H. Robins Co. v. Piccinin (1986), Maritime Electric Co. v. United Jersey Bank (1991)
59 federal appellate · 14 district · 13 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Somerville v. Illinois · Fidelity Mortgage Investors v. Camelia Builders, Inc. · In the Matter of Metropolitan Realty Corporation. Metropolitan Realty Corporation
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 289 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(d) On request of a party in interest and after notice and a hearing, the court shall grant relief from the stay provided under subsection (a) of this section, such as by terminating, annulling, modifying, or conditioning such stay— (1) for cause, including the lack of adequate protection of an interest in property of such party in interest.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Kerns · Culie v. Arnett“(1) the commencement or continuation, including the issuance or employment of process, of a judicial, administrative, or other proceeding against the debtor that was or could have been commenced before the commencement of the case under this title, or to recover a claim against the debtor that arose before the commencement of the case under this title....”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t will often be more appropriate to permit proceedings to continue in their place of origin, when no great prejudice to the bankruptcy estate would result, in order to leave the parties to their chosen forum and to relieve the bankruptcy court from many duties that may be handled elsewhere.”
11 later decisions 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.