James v. Draper’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Maritime Electric Co. v. United Jersey Bank (1991), Lambert v. Blackwell (2004)
17 federal appellate · 6 district · 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. § 105 · 11 U.S.C. § 362 · 11 U.S.C. § 542 · 11 U.S.C. § 726 · 28 U.S.C. § 1257 · 28 U.S.C. § 1334 · 28 U.S.C. § 158 · 28 U.S.C. § 2283
Relies on District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co. · Calero-Toledo v. Pearson Yacht Leasing Co. · Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers · Kalb v. Feuerstein
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, a petition ... operates as a stay, applicable to all entities, of— (1) the commencement or continuation, including the issuance or employment of process, of a judicial, administrative, or other action or proceeding against the debtor that was or could have been commenced before the commencement of the case under this title [[Image here]]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[although the Anti-Injunction Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2283 , generally prevents a federal court from enjoining state court proceedings, section 105(a) of the Bankruptcy Code creates an exception to this general statutory rule by authorizing a bankruptcy court to issue any order necessary or appropriate to carry out the provisions of the Act. Therefore, a bankruptcy court generally is considered to possess the power to enjoin a pending state action that violates the automatic stay.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when the state proceedings are considered a legal nullity and thus void ab initio.”
3 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.