McKay Commonwealth Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare Graham Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2010
3 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 11 U.S.C. § 522
Relies on Lawrence Tractor Co. v. Gregory
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that where a debtor seeks to avoid a judicial lien pursuant to 11 U.S.C. Sec. 522(f), the adversary proceedings rules adopted by the Bankruptcy Code apply, and that the debtor thus bears the burden of filing a complaint with the bankruptcy court and serving a copy of it on each creditor whose lien the debtor seeks to avoid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brady v. Andrew“the drafter's intent was to require use of the adversary proceedings rules whenever certain forms of property ... were affected in certain ways (e.g., by avoidance pursuant to section 522(f) ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brady v. Andrew“rules prescribed under section 2075 of title 28 of the United States Code and in effect on September 30, 1979, [the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure] shall apply to cases”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brady v. Andrew
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.