In Re Townsend’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2007
1 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. § 105 · 28 U.S.C. § 1406 · 28 U.S.C. § 1408 · 28 U.S.C. § 1412
Relies on United States v. California · Commonwealth of Puerto Rico v. Commonwealth Oil Refining Co. · Hunt v. Bankers Trust Co. · In Re Geis · In Re Perdido Bay Country Club Estates, Inc.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(2) Cases Filed in Improper District. If a petition is filed in an improper district, on timely motion of a party in interest and after hearing on notice to the petitioners and other entities as directed by the court, the case may be dismissed or transferred to any other district if the court determines that transfer is in the interest of justice or for the convenience of the parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Pick · In Re Lazaro
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.