Patton v. Bearden’s Empirical Analysis
8 F.3d 343 · 1993
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 197 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Adams v. Metiva (1994), Zale Corporation Feld v. Zale Corporation (1995)
34 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · Topsy's International, Inc. v. Seiffer · A.H. Robins Co. v. Piccinin
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 197 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether 'the evidence presents a sufficient disagreement to require submission to a jury or whether it is so one-sided that one party must prevail as a matter of law.'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[S]uch extensions, although referred to as extensions of the automatic stay,[are] in fact injunctions issued by the bankruptcy court after hearing and the establishment of unusual need to take this action to protect the administration of the bankruptcy estate.’ ” Chugach, 23 F.3d at 247 n. 6 (quoting Patton v. Bearden, 8 F.3d 343 , 349 (6th Cir. 1993)). See also 11 U.S.C. § 105 (providing the bankruptcy court's power to”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“action or proceeding against the debtor that was or could have been commenced before the commencement of the case under this title, or to recover a claim against the debtor that arose before the commencement of the case under this title . . . .”
2 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.