Lawrence Tractor Co. v. Gregory’s Empirical Analysis
705 F.2d 1118 · 1983
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 225 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Simmons v. Savell (1985), In re Szostek (1989)
47 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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. § 101 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005) · 11 U.S.C. § 1328 · 11 U.S.C. § 341
Relies on Goeb v. Heid · 531 F. Supp. 808 - D. C. Transit System, Inc. v. United States · In Re Meltzer · Lawrence Tractor Co. v. Gregory (In Re Gregory)
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 225 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whatever is notice enough to excite attention and put the party on his guard and call for inquiry, is notice of everything to which such inquiry may have led. When a person has sufficient information to lead him to a fact, he shall be deemed to be conversant of it.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[ T]he failure to raise [an] objection at the confirmation hearing or to appeal from the order of confirmation should preclude [an] attack on the plan or any provision therein as illegal in a subsequent proceeding.””
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) As soon as practicable after completion by the debtor of all payments under the plan, unless the court approves a written waiver of discharge executed by the debt- or after the order for relief under this chapter, the court shall grant the debtor a discharge of all debts provided for by the plan or disallowed under section 502 of this title ....”
4 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.