Thurman v. Tafoya’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably People v. Leske (1998), City of Thornton v. Bijou Irrigation Co. (1996)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 28 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. § 108 · 11 U.S.C. § 301 · 11 U.S.C. § 362 · 26 U.S.C. § 6503
Relies on Aslanidis v. United States Lines, Inc. · Bertrand v. Board of County Commissioners of Park County · Morton v. National Bank of New York City · 99 Ill. 2d 84 - Garbe Iron Works, Inc. v. Priester · West v. United States
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f applicable nonbankruptcy law . . . fixes a period for commencing or continuing a civil action ... on a claim against the debtor, . . . and such period has not expired before the date of the filing of the petition, then such period does not expire until the later of— (1) the end of such period, including any suspension of such period occurring on or after the commencement of the case; or (2) 30 days after notice of the termination or expiration of the stay . . . with respect to such claim.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f the limitations period expires while the bankruptcy stay is in effect, then section 108(c) provides creditors with an extra thirty days to pursue a claim once the creditor receives notice that the bankruptcy stay has been lifted.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In addition, a statute should be read and considered as a whole in order to give consistent, harmonious, and sensible effect to all of its parts.”
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.