Bankr. L. Rep. P 71,860, 3 Ucc rep.serv.2d 1700 Thomas E. Wegner v. Cecelia Grunewaldt, Trustee Valley National Bank, a National Banking Corporation and the South Dakota Department of Revenue’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 40 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 150 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Equitable Bank v. Miller (1994), 20 Collier bankr.cas.2d 19, Bankr. L. Rep. P 72,385, 7 Ucc rep.serv.2d 656 in Re Bellanca Aircraft Corporation, Debtor (Three Cases). Edward W. Bergquist, Trustee of the Bankruptcy Estate of Bellanca Aircraft Corporation v. Anderson-Greenwood Aviation Corp., a Texas Corporation Anderson Greenwood & Co., a Texas Corporation, (Two Cases). Edward W. Bergquist, Trustee of the Bankruptcy Estate of Bellanca Aircraft Corporation v. Anderson-Greenwood Aviation Corp., a Texas Corporation Anderson Greenwood & Co., a Texas Corporation (1988)
19 federal appellate · 40 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 Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Pepper v. Litton · In the Matter of Mobile Steel Company, Debtor. Elaine E. Benjamin v. Lester Y. Diamond, as Trustee in Bankruptcy for Mobile Steel, Inc. · Missionary Baptist Foundation v. Huffman
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 150 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a district court reviews a bankruptcy court's judgment, it acts as an appellate court.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A finding is 'clearly erroneous' when although there is evidence to support it, the reviewing court on the entire evidence is left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“conduct an independent review of the bankruptcy court's judgment, asking whether [its] legal conclusions are correct and whether its factual findings are clearly erroneous.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Apex Oil Company, Debtor. P.A. Novelly v. Lloyd A. Palans, the Examiner, Gallop, Johnson & Neuman, in Re Apex Oil Company, Debtor. Apex Oil Company, and the Other 53 Entities That Are Debtors and Debtors in Possession v. Lloyd A. Palans, the Examiner, Gallop, Johnson & Neuman · Gerrald v. Wright
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.