Lee v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis
739 F.2d 870 · 1984
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 12 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 243 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2025 · most notably Reiter v. Cooper (1993), University Medical Center v. Sullivan (1992)
28 federal appellate · 12 district · 8 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. § 106 · 11 U.S.C. § 108 · 11 U.S.C. § 362 · 11 U.S.C. § 506 · 11 U.S.C. § 522 · 11 U.S.C. § 547 · 11 U.S.C. § 553 · 42 U.S.C. § 401 (§ 201 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on United States v. Whiting Pools, Inc. · United States ex rel. Internal Revenue Service v. Norton · In re Monongahela Rye Liquors, Inc. · Neavear v. Schweiker
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 243 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The justification for the recoupment doctrine is that where the creditor’s claim against the debtor arises from the same transaction as the debtor’s claim, it is essentially a defense to the debtor’s claim against the creditor rather than a mutual obligation, and application of the limitations on setoff in bankruptcy would be inequitable.”
31 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“amount, if any, by which a claim against the debtor exceeds a mutual debt owing to the debtor by the holder of such claim.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Except as otherwise provided ... this title does not affect any right of a creditor to offset a mutual debt owing by such creditor to the debtor that arose before the commencement of the case ... against a claim of such creditor against the debtor that arose before the commencement of the case....”
14 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.