Vause v. Capital Poly Bag, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
886 F.2d 794 · 1989
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably United States v. Cassidy (1990), Mallory v. Eyrich (1991)
38 federal appellate · 4 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. § 501 · 11 U.S.C. § 502 · 11 U.S.C. § 506 · 28 U.S.C. § 158
Relies on Blum v. Stenson · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Rector Etc of Holy Trinity Church v. United States · Watt v. Alaska · American Tobacco Co. v. Patterson
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is aimed at compensating a lessor for his loss while not allowing a claim “so large (based on a long-term lease) as to prevent other general unsecured creditors from recovering a dividend from the estate. Thus, Congress intended to compensate landlords for their actual damages while placing a limit on large future, speculative damages which would displace other creditors’ claims.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“provide the lessor with his actual damages for past rent, but placing a limit on his damages for speculative future rent payments in long-term leases”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“final determination of the rights of the parties to secure the relief they seek in [the] suit.”
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.