McLean’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2017 · most notably Education Assistance Corp. v. Zellner (1987), Swanson Humphrey III v. J Buckley
11 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 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 McComb v. Jacksonville Paper Co. · Maness v. Meyers · Radzanower v. Touche Ross & Co. · Goff v. Taylor · Samore v. Graham
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e believe that whether a particular pension fund interest subject to transfer restrictions is initially included in estate property is wholly determined by whether, per § 541(c)(2), the restriction is enforceable under applicable nonbankrupt-cy law, including any public policy concerns that might make unenforceable a restriction in a pension plan settled and revocable by a beneficiary.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he language of Sec. 541(c)(2) d[id] not suggest such a limitation,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Sec. 541(c)(2) should be confined in its recognition of enforceable transfer restrictions to those found in 'traditional' spendthrift trusts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Moore · Moore v. S Raine
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.