In Re Sunset Developers’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2005 · most notably 76 Wash. App. 733 - Finkelstein v. Security Properties, Inc. (1995), In Re Cardinal Industries, Inc. (1990)
1 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 303 · 11 U.S.C. § 365 · 11 U.S.C. § 541
Relies on Fenix Cattle Co. v. Silver · Skeen v. Harms (In Re Harms) · Steffan v. McMillan (In Re Coordinated Financial Planning Corp.) · Holcomb v. Fulton (In Re Fulton) · King v. Stanton (In Re Stanton)
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“authority as a general partner to bind the partnership to an involuntary bankruptcy petition”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Partnership Agreement provides on page 12 and 13 that a partner is in default if he filed for bankruptcy either on behalf of the partnership or individually. On page 13 and 14 of the Agreement it provides that upon default of a partner, the defaulting partner “shall have no right to vote upon or otherwise participate in management of the partnership.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Under the agreement the partners each have an obligation to contribute amounts in cash to the partnership when required.... An executory contract exists where performance remains due to some extent on both sides.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.