Committee of Equity Security Holders v. Lionel Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 234 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Czyzewski v. Jevic Holding Corp. (2017), Gekas v. Pipin (1988)
33 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 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. § 1101 · 11 U.S.C. § 363 · 11 U.S.C. § 501 · 11 U.S.C. § 701
Relies on Protective Committee for Independent Stockholders of TMT Trailer Ferry, Inc. v. Anderson · Johnson v. United States · New York Shipping Ass'n v. Federal Maritime Commission · Missouri Kansas Texas Railway Company of Texas v. Clay May
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 234 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the proportionate value of the asset to the estate as a whole, the amount of elapsed time since the filing, the likelihood that a plan of reorganization will be proposed and confirmed in the near future, the effect of the proposed disposition on future plans of reorganization, the proceeds to be obtained from the disposition vis-a-vis any appraisals of the property, which of the alternatives of use, sale or lease the proposal envisions and, most importantly perhaps, whether the asset is increasing or decreasing in value.”
44 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(b)(1) The trustee, after notice and a hearing, may use, sell or lease, other than in the ordinary course of business, property of the estate.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a bankruptcy judge must have substantial freedom to tailor his orders to meet differing circumstances.”
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.