Johnson v. Righetti’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 152 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2019 · most notably Travelers Casualty & Surety Co. of America v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (2007), Little Creek Development Co. v. Commonwealth Mortgage Corp. (1986)
38 federal appellate · 3 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. § 362 · 11 U.S.C. § 502 · 11 U.S.C. § 506 · 28 U.S.C. § 1293
Relies on Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Mason v. Integrity Insurance · Collingwood Grain, Inc. v. Coast Trading Co. · Grove v. Fulwiler
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 152 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Hearings on relief from the automatic stay are thus handled in a summary fashion. The validity of the claim or contract underlying the claim is not litigated during the hearing.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The [debtors] argue that because the [secured creditors] may have been able to recover attorney’s fees under 11 U.S.C. [section] 506(b), the debtors should be allowed to recover their attorney’s fees. This argument is inapposite. Section 506(b) concerns only the award of attorney’s fees to oversecured creditors with a contractual right to reimbursement and is not applicable to the [debtors]. See In re Carey, 8 B.R. 1000, 1002-04 (Bankr.S.D.Cal.1981) (court did not construe section 506(b) to incorporate state law on the availability of attorney’s fees).”
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.