In Re Hampton’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently May 2017
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. § 101 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005)
Relies on In Re Jerome Thomas Lafond · In Re Dakota Lay'd Eggs · In Re Hines · Armstrong v. Corn Belt Bank · Lindsay v. U.S. Bank (In Re Lindsay)
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Certainly, Congress knew that farming is a speculative business. A farmer’s annual income can vary substantially due to the farmer’s dependence upon the weather, crop production, prices, etc. Due to the nature of his business, a farmer cannot readily ascertain, with any degree of certainty, what his future income for the coming years will be.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.