Nejberger’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Columbia Gas Systems Inc (1993), Integrated Solutions, Inc. v. Service Support Specialties, Inc. (1997)
16 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 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 Butner v. United States · Terwilliger's Catering Plus Inc Bavely v. United States Internal Revenue Service · 1412 Spruce, Inc. v. Commonwealth, Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board · REDEVELOP. AUTH., PHILA. v. Lieberman
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Although section 541 [of the Bankruptcy Code] defines property of the estate, we must look to state law to determine if a property right exists and to stake out its dimensions.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all legal or equitable interests of the debtor in property as of the commencement of the case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the event that any person to whom a license shall have been issued under the provisions of this article shall become ... bankrupt by either voluntary or involuntary action, the license of such person shall be immediately placed in safekeeping with the board for the balance of the term of the license and for an additional period of one year upon application to the board by the trustee.... The trustee ... shall have, during said period of safekeeping, the same rights, benefits and obligations as to the license as the person to whom the license had been issued, including the right to transfer the license subject to the approval of the board. The license shall continue as a personal privilege granted by the board and nothing herein shall constitute the license as property.”
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.