Hoffman v. Connecticut, Department of Income Maintenance’s Empirical Analysis
850 F.2d 50 · 1988
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2017 · most notably Hoffman v. Connecticut Department of Income Maintenance (1989), Vernon Village, Inc. v. Carothers (1991)
4 federal appellate · 2 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. § 106 · 11 U.S.C. § 542 · 11 U.S.C. § 547 · 28 U.S.C. § 157
Relies on Edelman v. Jordan · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · Quern v. Jordan
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(a) A governmental unit is deemed to have waived sovereign immunity with respect to any claim against such governmental unit that is property of the estate and that arose out of the same transaction or occurrence out of which such governmental unit’s claim arose. (b) There shall be offset against an allowed claim or interest of a governmental unit any claim against such governmental unit that is property of the estate. (c) Except as provided in subsections (a) and (b) of this section and notwithstanding any assertion of sovereign immunity— (1) a provision of this title that contains "creditor,” "entity," or "governmental unit" applies to governmental units; and (2) a determination by the court of an issue arising under such a provision binds governmental units.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(b) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, the trustee may avoid any transfer of an interest of the debtor in property— (1) to or for the benefit of a creditor; (2) for or on account of an antecedent debt owed by the debtor before such transfer was made; (3) made while the debtor was insolvent; (4) made— (A) on or within 90 days before the date of the filing of the petition; or (B) between ninety days and one year before the date of the filing of the petition, if such creditor at the time of such transfer was an insider; (5) that enables such creditor to receive more than such creditor would receive if— (A) the case were a case under chapter 7 of this title; (B) the transfer had not been made; and (C) such creditor received payment of such debt to the extent provided by the provisions of this title.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]n entity that owes a debt that is property of the estate and that is ma-tured, payable on demand, or payable on order, shall pay such debt to, or on the order of, the trustee, except to the ex-tent that such debt may be offset under section 553 or this title against a claim against the debtor.”
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.