In Re William’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Mayer v. Belichick (2010), United States of America v. Bill Lawrence (1999)
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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
Relies on Butner v. United States · Sierra Switchboard Co. v. Westinghouse Electric Corp. · California v. Farmers Markets, Inc. · Emery v. Boston Terminal Co. · Ucc v. Contractors Equipment Supply Co Dewhirst
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since the Bankruptcy Code itself does not determine the existence and scope of a debtor's interest in property, these threshold issues are properly resolved by reference to state law.”
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.