Munford Inc Munford Sb Dfa Pnc v. Munford Inc’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably In Re: Continental Airlines (2000), Hicks, Muse & Co. v. Brandt (1998)
2 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 105
Relies on Pacor Inc. v. Higgins · Miller v. Kemira, Inc. · Wald v. Wolfson · Restigouche, Inc. v. Town of Jupiter · Latin American Property & Casualty Insurance v. Hi-Lift Marina, Inc.
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[Tjhe test for determining whether a civil proceeding is related to bankruptcy is whether the outcome of the proceeding could conceivably have an effect on the estate being administered in bankruptcy.' ” Lemco Gypsum, Inc., 910 F.2d at 788 (quoting Pacor, Inc. v. Higgins, 743 F.2d 984, 994 (3d Cir. 1984)). In other words,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[P]ublic policy strongly favors pretrial settlement in all types of litigation because such cases, depending on their complexity, 'can occupy a court's docket for years on end, depleting the resources of parties and the taxpayers while rendering meaningful relief increasingly elusive.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the outcome could alter the debtor's rights, liabilities, options, or freedom of action (either positively or negatively) and which in any way impacts upon the handling and administration of the bankrupt estate.”
2 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.