Lancaster v. Tennessee’s Empirical Analysis
831 F.2d 118 · 1987
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Chateaugay Corporation v. Ltv Corporation Ltv State of New York (1991), Dant Russell Inc Burlington Northern Railroad Company v. Dant & Russell Inc (1988)
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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. § 101 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005) · 11 U.S.C. § 503 · 11 U.S.C. § 554 · 28 U.S.C. § 959 · 42 U.S.C. § 9601 (§ 101 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980) · 42 U.S.C. § 9607 (§ 107 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980)
Relies on Midlantic National Bank v. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection · Ohio v. Kovacs · Reading Company v. Brown · New York v. Shore Realty Corp.
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] trustee ... appointed in any cause pending in any court of the United States, including a debtor in possession, shall manage and operate the property in his possession as such trustee ... according to the requirements of the valid laws of the State in which such property is situated, in the same manner that the owner or possessor would be bound to do if in possession thereof.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(A) the actual, necessary costs and expenses of preserving the estate, including wages, salaries, or commissions for services rendered after the commencement of the case.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is undisputed that the hazardous wastes still within the debtor’s estate ... presented a danger to the public’s health and safety. The State of Tennessee, in the absence of compliance by the debt- or’s estate, was entitled by its own law to expend funds to assess the gravity of the environmental hazard. We thus find those expenses to be actual and necessary, both to preserve the estate in required compliance with state law and to protect the health and safety of a potentially endangered public.”
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.