United States v. Reynolds’s Empirical Analysis
764 F.2d 1004 · 1985
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 2008 · most notably United States v. Arkison (1994), Small Business Administration v. Rinehart (1989)
7 federal appellate · 5 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. § 361 · 11 U.S.C. § 362 · 11 U.S.C. § 507 · 11 U.S.C. § 553
Relies on Segal v. Rochelle · United States ex rel. Internal Revenue Service v. Norton · In Re Rash · United States v. Reynolds
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(3) any act to obtain possession of property of the estate or of property from the estate or to exercise control over property of the estate; and (7) the setoff of any debt owing to the debtor that arose before the commencement of the ease under this title against any claim against the debtor;”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The automatic stay protects debtors from their creditors and creditors from themselves while a repayment plan is developed. If a creditor could circumvent the automatic stay simply by delaying the entry of a setoff or credit in its books, it could hold the funds until the case was closed and then deposit them into its own bank account. By the unilateral action of one creditor, these funds would become available for distribution to other creditors or for use by the debt- or in a Chapter 13 plan, thus making it that much less likely that the debtor could be rehabilitated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“§ 553 Setoff (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section and in sections 362 and 363 of this title, 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 under this title against a claim of such creditor against the debtor that arose before the commencement of the case ...”
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.