Evans v. Robbins’s Empirical Analysis
897 F.2d 966 · 1990
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably Gilbert v. Cosco Inc. (1993), In re Meyers (2010)
9 federal appellate · 3 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. § 541 · 11 U.S.C. § 542
Relies on Maggio v. Zeitz · Martin v. United States · South Falls Corporation v. William J. Rochelle, Jr., Trustee in Bankruptcy for Giant Stores of Longview, Inc., Bankrupt · Lester Gene Brown v. Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway Company, a Corporation
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) it appears that the documentary evidence exists or existed; (2) the suppressing party has possession or control of the evidence; (3) the evidence is available to the suppressing party, but not to the party seeking production; (4) it appears that there has been actual suppression or withholding of evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The burden of proof in a turnover action: ... is at all times on ... the trustee; he must at least establish a prima facie case. After that, the burden of explaining or going forward shifts to the other party, but the ultimate burden or risk of persuasion is upon the trustee.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the debtors fraudulently attempted to hide or dispose of assets through creation of fourteen corporate alter ego business entities, and ordered all assets turned over with title to vest in the trustee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.