In Re Lines’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2014
2 federal appellate · 1 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. § 101 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005) · 11 U.S.C. § 109 · 12 U.S.C. § 1813
Relies on Cunard Steamship Company Limited v. Salen Reefer Services Ab, United Brands Company, Garnishee · Green v. Drexler · Victrix Steamship Co Sa v. Salen Dry Cargo Ab M/v Seatransport · Matter of Culmer · Universal Casualty & Surety Co. v. Gee (In Re Gee)
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For purposes of section 304, the estate of a foreign debtor is defined by the law of the jurisdiction in which the foreign proceeding is pending, with other applicable law serving to define the estate's interest in particular property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“be guided by what will best assure an economical and expeditious administration of [the bankrupt] estate, consistent with [ inter alia ] comity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.