Perkins Teachers' Retirement System State Illinois’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably In re Vitreous Steel Products Co. (1990), DLH, Inc. v. Russ (1997)
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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. § 541
Relies on Maggio v. Zeitz · Koch Refining v. Farmers Union Central Exchange, Inc. · 785 F.2d 1249 · Louisiana World Exposition v. Federal Insurance · Acolyte Electric Corp. v. City of New York
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Whether the trust restricts the beneficiary’s ability to alienate and the beneficiary’s creditors’ ability to attach the trust corpus; (2) Whether the beneficiary settled and retained the right to revoke the trust; and (3) Whether the beneficiary has exclusive and effective dominion and control over the trust corpus, distribution of the trust corpus and termination of the trust.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) the trustee unjustifiably refuses a demand to pursue the action; (b) the creditor establishes a colorable claim or cause of action; and (c) the creditor seeks and obtains leave from the bankruptcy court to prosecute the action for and in the name of the trustee.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(2) A restriction on the transfer of a beneficial interest of the debtor in a trust that is enforceable under applicable non-bankruptcy law is enforceable in a case under this title [ (i.e., the restriction will prevent the beneficial interest from being subject to the claims of the debtor’s creditors should he file for bankruptcy) ].”
2 later decisions 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.