Penn Terra Ltd. v. Department of Environmental Resources’s Empirical Analysis
733 F.2d 267 · 1984
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 22 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 237 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2024 · most notably Pacor Inc. v. Higgins (1984), Ohio v. Kovacs (1985)
67 federal appellate · 22 district · 15 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. § 101 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005) · 11 U.S.C. § 105 · 11 U.S.C. § 362 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1293
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Maryland v. Louisiana · Chicago & North Western Transportation Co. v. Kalo Brick & Tile Co. · National Labor Relations Board v. Amax Coal Co.
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 237 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the commencement or continuation of an action or proceeding by a governmental unit to enforce such governmental unit's police or regulatory power.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a definite and certain designation of the amount which plaintiff is owed by defendant.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Paragraph (4) excepts commencement or continuation of actions and proceedings by governmental units to enforce police or regulatory powers. Thus, where a government unit is suing a debtor to prevent or stop violation of fraud, environmental protection, consumer protection, safety, or similar police or regulatory laws, or attempting to fix damages for violation of such law, the action or proceeding is not stayed under the automatic stay.”
17 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.