In the Matter of Arlo B Edwards Appeal of Golden Guernsey Dairy Co-Op’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Zale Corporation Feld v. Zale Corporation (1995), In the Matter Of: Unr Industries, Inc., Debtors. Appeals of Unarco Bloomington Factory Workers (1994)
16 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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
Relies on Fay v. Noia · Chicot County Drainage District v. Baxter State Bank · Stoll v. Gottlieb · Treinies v. Sunshine Mining Co. · Nemaizer v. Baker
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'if the court that rendered it lacked jurisdiction of the subject matter, or one of the parties, or if it acted in a matter inconsistent with due process of law.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The bona fide purchaser at a bankruptcy sale gets good title. That principle, although qualified as we shall see, decides this appeal, in which the specific issue is the validity of a judicially approved sale of a portion of a bankrupt estate without notice to one of the debtor’s secured creditors.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[secured creditor] Guernsey does not suggest that the property was worth more than the $85,000 that the bankrupt estate received for selling it — and if it was worth no more Guernsey suffered only a trivial loss of interest (the interest on $7,000 during the period it was in the hands of the trustee) as a result of the failure to notify it of the sale.”). But as this Court explained in the Sale Opinion, see 407 B.R. at 501 ,”
1 later decision 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.