McKeesport Steel Castings Company McKeesport Steel Castings Company Equitable Gas Co v. Equibank Na Equitable Gas Company a Division of Equitable Resources Inc’s Empirical Analysis
799 F.2d 91 · 1986
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 144 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably Dant Russell Inc Burlington Northern Railroad Company v. Dant & Russell Inc (1988), Gibson Group Inc Canadian Pacific Forest Products Limited v. Jd Irving Limited (1995)
21 federal appellate · 6 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. § 366 · 11 U.S.C. § 506
Relies on Universal Minerals, Inc. v. C. A. Hughes & Co. · In Re Codesco, Inc. · Flagstaff Foodservice Corporation General Electric Credit Corporation v. Peltz · Committee of Unsecured Creditors v. Monsour Medical Center (In Re Monsour Medical Center)
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 144 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trustee may recover from property securing an allowed secured claim the reasonable, necessary costs and expenses of preserving, or disposing of, such property to the extent of any benefit to the holder of such claim.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]o warrant [Sec.] 506(c) recovery ... [the claimant] must show that ... funds were expended primarily for the benefit of the creditor and that the creditor directly benefitted from the expenditure.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The rule that individual creditors cannot act in lieu of the trustee is often breached when sufficient reason exists to permit the breach. In this case, neither the debtor in possession nor a creditor’s committee had reason to make a claim on behalf of Equitable when the debtor thereby would be required to pay for utilities they received without charge following the date that his petition was filed. Thus, because Equitable Gas had a creditor’s claim for expenses and was the only creditor that would zealously pursue that claim, it has standing to bring a Section 506(c) action.””
3 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.