In Re Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 2013
2 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 1322 · 11 U.S.C. § 1325
Relies on In Re Iacovoni · In Re Cloutier · In Re Bloom · In Re Howard · Tenney v. Terry (In Re Terry)
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“nothing in the Bankruptcy Code suggests that 'good faith' as used in section 1325(a) was intended to depart from the term's traditional meaning of honesty in fact or honesty of intention.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barnes v. Whelan“offered repayment to the maximum extent she honestly believed she was capable (and therefore) met Chapter 13's good faith requirement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barnes v. Whelan“because the bankruptcy judge proceeded to the merits ... the venue determination is moot.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barnes v. Whelan
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.