Newbery Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Filipino Yellow Pages, Inc. v. Asian Journal Publications, Inc. (1999), Thrifty Oil Co. v. Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n (2002)
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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. § 101 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005) · 11 U.S.C. § 362 · 11 U.S.C. § 553 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292
Relies on Moore v. New York Cotton Exchange · Reiter v. Cooper · Citizens Bank of Md. v. Strumpf · Leh v. General Petroleum Corp. · Associated Indemnity Corp. v. Warner
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is the setting up of a demand arising from the same transaction as the plaintiff's claim or cause of action, strictly for the purpose of abatement or reduction of such claim.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The right of setoff (also called ‘offset’) allows entities that owe each other money to apply their mutual debts against each other, thereby avoiding ‘the absurdity of making A pay B when B owes A.’ ” [Citation omitted] The defining characteristic of setoff is that “the mutual debt and claim ... are generally those arising from different transactions.” [Citation omitted] [Original emphasis]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Except as otherwise provided in this section and in sections 362 and 363 of this title, this title does not affect any right of a creditor to offset a mutual debt owing by such creditor to the debt- or that arose before the commencement of the case under this title against a claim of such creditor against the debtor that arose before the commencement of the case[.] ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.