Coble v. Bowers’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2021
2 federal appellate · 5 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. § 323 · 11 U.S.C. § 524 · 11 U.S.C. § 541 · 11 U.S.C. § 554
Relies on 10 Cal. App. 3d 376 - Fletcher v. Western National Life Insurance · Christian v. American Home Assurance Co. · Runyon v. Reid · Timmons v. Royal Globe Insurance Co. · Northrip v. Montgomery Ward & Co.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As such, the Chapter 7 trustee has the duty to collect and reduce to money the estate's property, and the right to pursue prosecution of the action. Until and unless the trustee abandons the claim, the debtor has no standing to prosecute on his own behalf, as he is in no longer the real party in interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. BIRR v. HAMPTON“Oklahoma law does not extend the tort of bad faith breach [of contract] to the commercial lending setting.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[is] no longer under his personal control, but rather [becomes] an asset of the bankruptcy estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. BIRR v. HAMPTON
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.