Snyder’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably Bonner Mall Partnership v. U.S. Bancorp Mortgage Co. (1993), In the Matter of Woodbrook Associates, Debtor-Appellant (1994)
3 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Dewsnup v. Timm · Norwest Bank Worthington v. Ahlers · Midlantic National Bank v. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection · Davis v. Michigan Department of the Treasury · Case v. Los Angeles Lumber Products Co.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen Congress amends the bankruptcy laws, it does not write 'on a clean slate.' " Dewsnup, 502 U.S. at 419, 112 S.Ct. at 779 (quoting In re John M. Russell, Inc. (Emil v. Hanley), 318 U.S. 515 , 521, 63 S.Ct. 687, 690-91, 87 L.Ed. 954 (1943)). The Court has been "reluctant to accept arguments that would interpret the Code, however vague the particular language under consideration might be, to effect a major change in pre-Code practice that is not the subject of at least some discussion in the legislative history.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[[Image here]] (B) With respect to a class of unsecured claims — ■ [[Image here]] (ii) the holder of any claim or interest that is junior to the claims of such class will not receive or retain under the plan on account of such junior claim or interest any property.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is no mathematical formula for resolving the substantiality issue, and it will depend on the circumstances of the individual case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.