In Re Powers’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably In Re Jonathan Barnes Leavitt, Debtor. Jonathan Barnes Leavitt v. Carlos Soto (1999), Eisen v. Curry (1994)
4 federal appellate ·
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. § 1307 · 11 U.S.C. § 362 · 28 U.S.C. § 1334 · 28 U.S.C. § 157
Relies on Pelaes v. United States · Stoll v. Gottlieb · Lawrence v. United States · Zaldivar v. City of Los Angeles · Albany Partners Ltd Albany Partners Ltd v. Wp Westbrook Albany Partners Ltd Wp Westbrook Ww C
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A bankruptcy court must impose sanctions when it finds a violation of Bankruptcy Rule 9011”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[N]either malice nor actual fraud is required to find a lack of good faith. The bankruptcy judge is not required to have evidence of debtor illwill directed at creditors, or that debtor was affirmatively attempting to violate the law — malfeasance is not a prerequisite to bad faith.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“misrepresented facts in his [petition or] plan, unfairly manipulated the Bankruptcy Code, or otherwise [filed] his Chapter 13 [petition or] plan in an inequitable manner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eisen v. Curry
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.