Robinson Robinson v. J McGuigan’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Woburn Associates v. Kahn (1992), Grady v. Ah Robins Company Incorporated (1988)
5 federal appellate · 1 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 Caminetti v. United States · Ohio v. Kovacs · Avellino & Bienes v. M. Frenville Co. · Central Trust Company Rochester v. Officials' Committee of Geiger Enterprises Inc · M. Frenville Co. v. Avellino & Bienes
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the bill contemplates that all legal obligations of the debtor, no matter how remote or contingent, will be able to be dealt with in the bankruptcy. It permits the broadest possible relief in the bankruptcy court.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(A) right to payment, whether or not such right is reduced to judgment, liqui dated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable, secured, or unsecured; or (B) right to an equitable remedy for breach of performance if such breach gives rise to a right to payment, whether or not such right to an equitable remedy is reduced to judgment, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, secured, or unsecured.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any right to the payment of restitution is a claim within the meaning of the Code; and that if any person or entity has a right to receive a payment of restitution from the bankruptcy debtor, the obligor has a debt within the meaning of the Code.”
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.