Goff v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
706 F.2d 574 · 1983
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 12 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 321 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably Patterson v. Shumate (1992), Walker v. Mather (1992)
58 federal appellate · 12 district · 7 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. § 522 · 11 U.S.C. § 541 · 22 U.S.C. § 4060 · 26 U.S.C. § 401 (Self-Employed Individuals Tax Retirement Act of 1962) · 26 U.S.C. § 72 · 28 U.S.C. § 1293 · 29 U.S.C. § 1002 (§ 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1056 (§ 206 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Segal v. Rochelle · Kokoszka v. Belford · Weinberger v. Hynson, Westcott & Dunning, Inc. · Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. v. Smith · Lines v. Frederick
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 321 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Each pension plan shall provide that benefits provided under the plan may not be assigned or alienated.”
66 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A restriction on the transfer of a beneficial interest of the debtor in a trust that is enforceable under applicable nonbank-ruptcy law is enforceable in a case under this title.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Reid · Dyke v. Heitkamp“Subsection (c) invalidates restrictions on the transfer of property of the debtor, in order that all of the interests of the debtor in property will become property of the estate. The provisions invalidated are those that restrict or condition transfer of the debtor’s interest, and those that are conditioned on the insolvency or financial condition of the debtor, on the commencement of a bankruptcy case, or on the appointment of a custodian of the debtor’s property. Paragraph (2) of subsection (c), however, preserves restrictions on transfer of a spendthrift trust to the extent that the restriction is enforceable under applicable nonbankruptcy law.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Patterson v. Shumate · In Re Moore
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.