Jensen’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Lemelle v. Universal Mfg. Corp. (1994), 75481 Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Pacific Railroad Company Cmc Heartland Partners (1993)
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 Grogan v. Garner · Midlantic National Bank v. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection · Zerman v. Melton · Reading Co. v. Schweitzer · New Jersey Department of Corrections v. Nash
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“right to payment, whether or not such right is reduced to judgment, liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable, secured, or unsecured.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all legal obligations of the debtor, no matter how remote or contingent, will be able to be dealt with in the bankruptcy case.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““all future response and natural resource damages cost based on pre-petition conduct that can be fairly contemplated by the parties at the time of [debtors’ bankruptcy are claims under the [Bankruptcy] Code.””
4 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.