Briden v. Foley’s Empirical Analysis
776 F.2d 379 · 1985
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 22 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2015 · most notably Granfinanciera, S.A. v. Nordberg (1989), Lawson v. Ford Motor Co. (1996)
10 federal appellate · 22 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. § 101 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005) · 11 U.S.C. § 547
Relies on Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · Atkins v. Parker · Estes v. Texas · Consove v. Cohen · Constructora Maza, Inc. v. Banco de Ponce
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he balance sheet test focuses on the fair market value of the debtors’ assets and liabilities within a reasonable time of the transfers. Asset valuation need not be exact. Assets should be reduced by the value of the assets not readily susceptible to liquidation and the payment of debts.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Indeed, the clearly erroneous standard was designed to insulate just such findings--ones that are based, inter alia, on weighing the credibility of witnesses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“... financial condition such that the sum of such entity’s debts is greater than all of such entity’s property, at fair valuation. ...”
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.