United States v. Renda’s Empirical Analysis
709 F.3d 472 · 2013
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2415 (Indian Claims Limitation Act of 1982) · 31 U.S.C. § 3701 (Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996) · 31 U.S.C. § 3713 · 41 U.S.C. § 7101 · 41 U.S.C. § 7103 · 41 U.S.C. § 7104 · 5 U.S.C. § 8503
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · United States v. Fisher · Bramwell v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Price v. United States · The United States v. The State Bank of North Carolina
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Read literally ... [it] ... require[s] the management of a solvent business ... to act at its peril in paying other debts while federal claims are owing, for if the business should later become unable to pay the federal claims[,] the management could be liable....'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Renda v. Erikson“a corporate officer is personally liable if, on behalf of the corporation, he (1) pays a non-federal debt (2) before paying a claim of the United States (3) at a time when the corporation was insolvent, (4) if he had knowledge or notice of the claim”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Renda v. Erikson“read into the provision the additional requirement[ ] that the representative have 'knowledge of the debt owed by the estate to the United States or notice of facts that would lead a reasonably prudent person to inquire as to [its] existence.'”
1 later decision 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.