Martin v. Kane’s Empirical Analysis
784 F.2d 1377 · 1986
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 192 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Wallis v. Justice Oaks II, Ltd. (1990), Reynolds v. Commissioner (1988)
33 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 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. § 105 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1293
Relies on Protective Committee for Independent Stockholders of TMT Trailer Ferry, Inc. v. Anderson · Reavis v. Antinore · Dyer v. Murray · AWECO, Inc. v. United States
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 192 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) The probability of success in the litigation; (b) the difficulties, if any, to be encountered in the matter of collection; (c) the complexity of the litigation involved, and the expense, inconvenience and delay necessarily attending it; (d) the paramount interest of the creditors and a proper deference to their reasonable views in the premises.”
31 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]s long as the [district] court amply considered the various factors that determined the reasonableness of the compromise, the court's decision must be affirmed.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here can be no informed and independent judgment as to whether a proposed compromise is fair and equitable until the bankruptcy judge has apprised himself of all facts necessary for an intelligent and objective opinion of the probabilities of ultimate success should the claim be litigated. Further, the judge should form an educated estimate of the complexity, expense, and likely duration of such litigation, the possible difficulties of collecting on any judgment which might be obtained, and all other factors relevant to a full and fair assessment of the wisdom of the proposed compromise.”
5 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.