Sheldon v. Munford, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
902 F.2d 7 · 1990
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 2011 · most notably Parker v. Bain (1995), Borman v. Raymark Industries, Inc. (1991)
10 federal appellate · 2 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. § 362
Relies on Mid-Jersey National Bank v. Fidelity-Mortgage Investors · Grubb v. Federal Deposit Insurance · Carter Baron Drilling v. Excel Energy Corp.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he supersedeas bond merely gives the judgment creditor another debtor to go after--the insurance company [that issued the bond]--once execution of the judgment is possible. It is not a release of the judgment debtor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the supersedeas bond insulates the bankrupt estate from any possibility of harm as a result of the outcome of the appeal.”
1 later decision 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.