Bankr. L. Rep. P 73,166 in Re Sherri Spillane’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Boddy, Dn Associates v. Dn Associates (1993)
2 federal appellate · 20 district · 1 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
Relies on Gulf Oil Corp. v. Copp Paving Co. · In the Matter of First Colonial Corp. Of America, Bankrupt. American Benefit Life Insurance Company, Appellants-Cross-Appellees v. Franz J. Baddock, Trustee, Appellee-Cross-Appellant. In the Matter of First Colonial Corp. Of America, Bankrupt. Bert K. Robinson v. American Benefit Life Insurance Company · Grendel's Den, Inc. v. Larkin · In re Saco Local Development Corp. · In re Josephson
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“several cases [have] recognize [d] that a bankruptcy court's order of compensation may be considered final `where the order conclusively determine[s] the entire section 330 compensation to be paid' to the attorneys.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"(1) After [notice and hearing] ...— (A) reasonable compensation for actual, necessary services rendered by the ... attorney ...; and (B) reimbursement for actual, necessary expenses. (2) The court may ... award compensation that is less than the compensation that is requested. (3) In determining the amount of reasonable compensation to be awarded, the court shall consider the nature, the extent, and the value of such services, taking into account all the relevant factors, including— (A) the time spent on such services; (B) the rates charged for such services; (C) whether the services were necessary to the administration of or beneficial at the time at which the service was rendered toward the completion of, a case under this title; (D) whether the services were performed within a reasonable amount of time commensurate with the complexity, importance, and nature of the problem, issue, or task addressed; and (E) whether the compensation is reasonable, based on the customary compensation charged by comparably skilled practitioners in cases other than cases under this title. (4)(A) ... the court shall not allow compensation for— (i) unnecessary duplication of services; or (ii) services that were not— (I) reasonably likely to benefit the debtor’s estate; or (II) necessary to the administration of the case. (5) The court shall reduce the amount of compensation awarded under this section by the amount of any interim compensation awarded under section 331, and, if the amount of such”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The attorney for the trustee was appointed specifically to handle the appeal on the transfer of venue. When we dismissed the appeal for lack of jurisdiction, the attorney's authorized services were terminated. Thus, further applications will not be forthcoming.... [W]e conclude that the award of attorney's fees should be treated as final.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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