Sumy v. Schlossberg’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Louisiana World Exposition, Inc. v. Federal Insurance (1987), Osborn v. Durant Bank & Trust Co. (1994)
29 federal appellate · 8 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. § 522 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 158
Relies on Brewer v. United States · Lockwood v. Exchange Bank · In re Saco Local Development Corp. · Sambo's Restaurants, Inc. v. Wheeler · In Re Ford
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) partition in kind of such property among the estate and such co-owners is impracticable; (2) sale of the estate’s undivided interest in such property would realize significantly less for the estate than sale of such property free of the interests of such co-owners; (3) the benefit to the estate of a sale of such property free of the interests of co-owners outweighs the detriment, if any, to such co-owners; and (4) such property is not used in the production, transmission, or distribution, for sale, of electric energy or of natural or synthetic gas for heat, light, or power.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any interest in property in which the debtor had, immediately before the commencement of the case, an interest as a tenant by the entirety or joint tenant to the extent that such interest as a tenant by the entirety or joint tenant is exempt from process under applicable nonbankruptcy law.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[ Section] 541 now includes the debtor's interest in entireties property as part of the estate.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.