74908 Gould Fisher’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2013
4 federal appellate · 2 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 Connecticut National Bank v. Germain · Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of White Farm Equipment Co. v. United States · Reichman v. United States Fire Insurance · Vylene Enterprises, Inc. v. Naugles, Inc. · In the Matter of Mary Leasure Unroe, Debtor
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n order is considered 'final' for purposes of 28 U.S.C. sec. 158(d) when it 'finally determines' one creditor's position . . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'the need to tie up the many subsidiary matters that litter the road to the distribution of assets in bankruptcy. A court cannot wait until the end of the case to allow the appeal because final disposition in bankruptcy ... depends on prior, authoritative disposition of subsidiary disputes.'”
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.