In Re Blanton Smith Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2004 · most notably In the Matter of William W. Wagner, Debtor-Appellant (1986), In the Matter of Bernard Armstrong, Debtor-Appellant (1987)
5 federal appellate ·
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 First Nat Bank Trust Co of Bridgeport Conn v. Beach · Nowell v. International Trust Co. · Matter of Maplewood Poultry Co. · Coble v. Federal Land Bank · Schuster v. Ohio Farmers' Co-op. Milk Ass'n
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘[F]armer’ means person that received more than 80 percent of such person’s gross income during the taxable year of such person immediately preceding the taxable year of such person during which the case under this title concerning such person was commenced from a farming operation owned or operated by such person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... would require a different test for an involuntary petition against a farmer ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... the irregular nature and the potential ups and downs ...”
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.