Davidovich v. Welton’s Empirical Analysis
901 F.2d 1533 · 1990
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 21 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 164 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably University Medical Center v. Sullivan (1992), Carolco Television Inc. v. National Broadcasting Co. (1992)
41 federal appellate · 21 district · 5 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. § 524 · 11 U.S.C. § 553 · 28 U.S.C. § 1334
Relies on Lee v. Schweiker · Hein v. Ruti-Sweetwater, Inc. · Fietz v. Great Western Savings · Ashland Petroleum Co. v. Appel
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 164 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'arises from the same transaction as the debtor's claim,'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“grants a creditor the right 'to offset a mutual debt owing by such creditor to the debtor' so long as both debts arose before the commencement of the bankruptcy action and are indeed mutual.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. LEWIS v. INMAN · In Re Buckner“(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section and in sections 362 and 363 of this title, this title does not affect any right of a creditor to offset a mutual debt owing by such creditor to the debtor that arose before the commencement of the case under this title against a claim of such creditor against the debtor that arose before the commencement of the case [[Image here]] 11 U.S.C. § 553 (a).”
3 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.