Havee v. Belk’s Empirical Analysis
775 F.2d 1209 · 1985
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2016 · most notably Crestar Bank v. Neal (In re Kitchin Equipment Co. of Virginia, Inc.) (1992), Lummus Industries, Inc. v. D.M. & E. Corp. (1988)
13 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 101 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005) · 11 U.S.C. § 544 · 11 U.S.C. § 548
Relies on Blanton v. General Electric Credit Corp. · Salem v. United States Lines Company · Ogletree v. Ohio · Durrett v. Washington National Insurance · Rubin Usn v. Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co M
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[ Wjhile it is the federal law which provides the trustee with his "strong-arm” power, his exercise of such power and its extent are governed entirely by the applicable state law.... [the strong-arm section] confers on the trustee no "greater rights than those accorded by the applicable [state] law to a creditor holding a lien by legal or equitable proceedings."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no basis for a claim of error in the failure of the district judge to give an instruction which the complaining party in effect thus abandoned”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the alleged error ... is such that notice thereof is '”
2 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.