Wedgeworth v. Fibreboard Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
706 F.2d 541 · 1983
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 4 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 159 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably A.H. Robins Co. v. Piccinin (1986), Maritime Electric Co. v. United Jersey Bank (1991)
47 federal appellate · 4 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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. § 1301 · 11 U.S.C. § 362
Relies on Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · Landis v. North American Co. · Watson v. Employers Liability Assurance Corp. · Dussouy v. Gulf Coast Investment Corp. · Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Co. v. Elbert
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 159 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(1) the commencement or continuation, including the issuance or employment of process, of a judicial, administrative, or other action or proceeding against the debtor that was or could have been commenced before the commencement of the case under this title, or to recover a claim against the debtor that arose before the commencement of the case under this title; ".... "(3) any act to obtain possession of property of the estate or of property from the estate or to exercise control over property of the estate; "(4) any act to create, perfect, or enforce any lien against property of the estate; "(5) any act to create, perfect, or enforce against property of the debtor any lien to the extent that such lien secures a claim that arose before the commencement of the case under this title; "(6) any act to collect, assess, or recover a claim against the debtor that arose before the commencement of the case under this title."”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the district court did not abuse its discretion in declining to permit the plaintiffs to amend their complaints to add, as party defendants, the liability insurance carriers of Johns-Manville and Unarco.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. A.H. Robins Company, Incorporated v. Anna Piccinin, and Nancy Campbell, Kathryn Conrad, Jeanette Dicharry, Vernon Dicharry, Luisa Mosa, Stella J. Camp, John H. Camp, Helen Barnett, Michael Barnett, and Edna Lindsey Ruminiski, Aetna Casualty and Surety Company, Intervenor/appellee. In Re A.H. Robins Company, Incorporated, Debtor. A.H. Robins Company, Incorporated v. Committee Representatives of Dalkon Shield Aetna Casualty and Surety Company, Intervenor/appellee. In Re A.H. Robins Company, Incorporated, Debtor. A.H. Robins Company, Incorporated v. Kathryn Conrad, Luisa and Jack Mosa, in Re A.H. Robins Company, Inc., Debtor. A.H. Robins Company, Inc. v. Anna Piccinin · Bankr. L. Rep. P 69,857 in Re Ernest Davis, Sr.“must make out a clear case of hardship or inequity in being required to go forward, if there is even a fair possibility that the stay for which he prays will work damage to some one [sic] else. Only in rare circumstances will a litigant in one case be compelled to stand aside while a litigant in another settles the rule of law that will define the rights of both.”
3 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.