Johnson v. Barnhill’s Empirical Analysis
931 F.2d 689 · 1991
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2020 · most notably Barnhill v. Johnson (1992), Reliance Equities Inc Clark v. Valley Federal Savings and Loan Association (1992)
12 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 547
Relies on Morgan v. United States · McKenzie v. Irving Trust Co. · Robert K. Morrow, Inc. v. Agri-Beef Co. · Morgan v. City of Rawlins · Bartmann v. Maverick Tube 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) Except as provided in subsections (c) and (i) of- this section, the trustee may avoid any transfer of an interest of the debtor in property— (1) to or for the benefit of a creditor; (2) for or on account of an antecedent debt owed by the debtor before such transfer was made; (3) made while the debtor was insolvent; (4) made— (A) on or within 90 days before the date of the filing of the petition; or (B) between ninety days and one year before the date of the filing of the petition, if such creditor at the time of such transfer was an insider; and (5) that enables such creditor to receive more than such creditor would receive if— (A) the case were a case under chapter 7 of [the Code]; (B) the transfer had not been made; and (C) such creditor received payment of such debt to the extent provided by the provisions of [the Code].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(2) to the extent that such transfer was— (A) in payment of a debt incurred by the debtor in the ordinary course of business or financial affairs of the debtor and the transferee; (B) made in the ordinary course of business or financial affairs of the debtor and the transferee; and (C) made according to ordinary business terms.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The legislative history of the Bankruptcy Code states that one purpose of the 1978 reforms was to make bankruptcy law generally more congruent with modern commercial practices, in particular the Uniform Commercial Code.”
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.