Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific Railroad Company Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific Railroad Company’s Empirical Analysis
791 F.2d 524 · 1986
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably Bonded Financial Services, Inc. v. European American Bank (1988), Levit Vn v. Ingersoll Rand Financial Corporation (1989)
26 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Butner v. United States · Vanston Bondholders Protective Committee v. Green · Group of Institutional Investors v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad · Lawrence E. Sexton v. Leopold Louis Dreyfus · City of New York v. Saper
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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact that a [bankruptcy] proceeding is equitable does not give the judge a free-floating discretion to redistribute rights in accordance with his [or her] personal views of justice and fairness, however enlightened those views may be.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Bankruptcy law provides a federal machinery for enforcing creditors' rights but the rights themselves are created by state law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]f the bankrupt is solvent the task for the bankruptcy court is simply to enforce creditors rights according to the tenor of the contracts that created those rights.”
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.