Bloom v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
839 F.2d 1376 · 1988
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably 28 Cal. App. 4th 8 - Yaesu Electronics Corp. v. Tamura (1994), John Douglas Smith John Douglas Smith v. Peter Kennedy (2000)
3 federal appellate · 4 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. § 522 · 26 U.S.C. § 401 (Self-Employed Individuals Tax Retirement Act of 1962) · 28 U.S.C. § 158 · 29 U.S.C. § 1104 (§ 404 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Bibby v. United States · Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank · Mann v. Koob · Continental Airlines, Inc. v. Zimmerman · Donovan v. Mazzola
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“designed and used for retirement purposes.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“designed and used for a retirement purpose.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“First, Bloom followed the procedures set out in the Trust Agreement for obtaining loans. Second, Bloom was charged a reasonable rate of interest on the loans. Third, she regularly made the interest payments due, over a period of several years. These three factors indicate that, unlike the debtor in Daniel, the transactions were not “more a withdrawal than a loan.” Daniel, 771 F.2d at 1357. Fourth, there is no indication that Bloom used the plan to hide otherwise ineligible assets from bankruptcy administration, as did the debtor in Daniel In sum, we believe that Bloom did not cease to treat her plans as retirement plans.”
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.