Braniff Airways Inc Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Continental Air Lines Inc v. Braniff Airways Inc’s Empirical Analysis
700 F.2d 935 · 1983
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 7 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 208 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Czyzewski v. Jevic Holding Corp. (2017), Richmond Leasing Co. v. Capital Bank, N.A. (1985)
42 federal appellate · 7 district · 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. § 105 · 11 U.S.C. § 1125 · 11 U.S.C. § 1126 · 11 U.S.C. § 361 · 11 U.S.C. § 362 · 11 U.S.C. § 363 · 11 U.S.C. § 365 · 5 U.S.C. § 551 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946)
Relies on Scripps-Howard Radio, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission · Hyde v. Woods · Air Line Pilots Ass'n v. Quesada · Securities and Exchange Commission v. First Financial Group of Texas
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 208 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“had the practical effect of dictating some of the terms of any future reorganization plan,”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The trustee, after notice and a hearing, may use, sell, or lease, other than in the ordinary course of business, property of the estate.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ny future attempts to specify the terms whereby a reorganization plan is to be adopted.”
5 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.