Unioil Inc Unioil v. He Elledge’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Stoecker Raleigh, State Bank v. Gledhill (1996)
4 federal appellate · 9 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
Relies on Kashif v. United States · Carter v. Nesby · United States v. United States Smelting Refining & Mining Co. · Maloy v. First Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n of West Palm Beach · Gulf States Exploration Co. v. Manville Forest Products 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n order to “fairly alert” the debtor estate, a POC [proof of claim] need only “provide[ ] adequate notice of the existence, nature, and amount of the claim as well as the creditor’s intent to hold the estate liable.” Unioil, Inc. v. H.E. Elledge (In re Unioil, Inc.), 962 F.2d 988, 992 (10th Cir.1992).”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[l]ate-filed amendments to proofs of claim should be treated with liberality, as '[l]eave to amend in a straight bankruptcy proceeding is freely allowed where the purpose is to cure a defect in the claim as originally filed,'”
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.