First Colonial Corporation of America First Colonial Corporation of America v. American Benefit Life Insurance Company’s Empirical Analysis
693 F.2d 447 · 1982
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably City of Waco Texas v. Bridges Usa (1983), Big John Bv v. Indian Head Grain Company (1983)
7 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 Blanton v. General Electric Credit Corp. · Bank of Marin v. England · Griffin v. United States · Central Illinois Public Service Co. v. United States · Lascaris v. Shirley
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is outside the scope of bankruptcy to go into conflicting claims of stockholders or as to who is entitled to the assets of a dissolved corporation, and in such circumstances, the bankruptcy court may simply hold the assets or provide for their custody pending determination of rights by another tribunal. 6 Remington, § 2890 at 510.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“those areas falling within the interstices of the [Bankruptcy] Act; one such area being the proper disposition of the surplus.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“One may not appeal an issue upon which one prevailed absent exceptional circumstances.”
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.