Oxborrow Berg’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2015
1 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
Relies on Central Montana Electric Power Cooperative, Inc. v. Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration · Manhattan Shirt Co. v. Andrew D. M. Tomlinson, Trustee in Bankruptcy of the Estate of N. Porter Mercantile Co., Bankrupt · Matter of Blanchard Management Corp. · Berg v. Esposito (In Re Oxborrow) · In Re Baton Rouge Marine Repair & Drydock, Inc.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(c) A candidate for trustee is elected trustee if— (1) creditors holding at least 20 percent in amount of the claims of a kind specified in subsection (a)(1) of this section that are held by creditors that may vote under subsection (a) of this section vote; and (2) such candidate receives the votes of creditors holding a majority in amount of claims specified in subsection (a)(1) of this section that are held by creditors that vote for a trustee.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'to interpret the words of th[e] statut[e] in light of the purposes Congress sought to serve.' " Norfolk Redevelopment & Housing Authority v. Chesapeake & Potomac Tel. Co., 464 U.S. 30 , 36, 104 S.Ct. 304, 307, 78 L.Ed.2d 29 (1983), quoting Chapman v. Houston Welfare Rights Org., 441 U.S. 600 , 608, 99 S.Ct. 1905, 1911, 60 L.Ed.2d 508 (1979). Accordingly, "we must avoid statutory interpretation that renders any section superfluous and does not give effect to all of the words used by Congress.”
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.