United States v. Royal Business Funds Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
724 F.2d 12 · 1983
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 2015
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 15 U.S.C. § 631 · 15 U.S.C. § 687C
Relies on Securities & Exchange Commission v. Lincoln Thrift Ass'n · Esbitt v. Dutch-American Mercantile Corp. · In re Prudence Co. · Securities & Exchange Commission v. Bartlett · United States v. Franklin National Bank
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We by no means intend to disturb the general rules that a debtor may not agree to waive the right to file a bankruptcy petition, that the pendency of an equitable receivership rarely precludes a petition in bankruptcy, or that equity receiverships should not perform the functions of the bankruptcy court. Nevertheless, a debtor subject to a federal receivership has no absolute right to file a bankruptcy petition....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“All legal proceedings of any nature, wherever located, involving Royal Business, or any of its assets, are hereby stayed, and all Courts having any jurisdiction thereof are hereby enjoined from taking any further action until further Order of this Court....”
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.