In Re Braley’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2015
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. § 701 · 11 U.S.C. § 707
Relies on Lines v. Frederick · Wright v. Vinton Branch of Mountain Trust Bank · Burlingham v. Crouse · Zolg v. Kelly · In re Walton
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There are two children in the Braley home. One is unemployed and in its motion to dismiss the case for substantial abuse they argue “U.S. Trustee believes that debtor is not legally responsible for the health and welfare of this son.” I can’t wait to get home and tell this to my son who just turned eighteen! Dear Trustee, there may be good reason for keeping them home after they reach their majority. We do not know what the Braley story is, but we say with great emphasis that a family has the basic human right of keeping at home even a problem child, if that’s the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Waites v. Braley“(1) A creditor has not brought this action. (2) The debts here are primarily consumer debts. (3) The presumption in favor of the debtors has not been refuted. (4) Substantial abuse does not exist in this case. There is no dishonesty, no evil intent demonstrated, no string of prior bankruptcies, no failure to fully disclose, no misrepresentation. (5) The Court has considered the totality of the circumstances and has concluded this family can rightfully benefit from straight bankruptcy. (6) These are financially troubled people, not unscrupulous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Waites v. Braley
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.