In Re Riggel’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 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. § 101 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005) · 11 U.S.C. § 1322 · 11 U.S.C. § 1325 · 11 U.S.C. § 1328 · 11 U.S.C. § 365 · 11 U.S.C. § 502 · 11 U.S.C. § 507 · 28 U.S.C. § 1334
Relies on Teamsters National Freight Industry Negotiating Committee v. U.S. Truck Co. · Nelson v. Easley (In Re Easley) · In Re Aztec Co. · In Re Elkind · In Re Dornon
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any classification of unsecured claims must pass a test of fairness unless that classification involves consumer debts for which co-signers were obtained. See Nelson v. Easley (In re Easley), 72 B.R. 948, 956 (Bankr.M.D.Tenn.1987). Unlike Chapter 11, unsecured creditors in Chapter 13 are not afforded an opportunity to vote. Further, unless their claims are unusually large, such creditors generally lack economic incentive to object to confirmation of a low dividend plan. Therefore, the primary burden for scrutinizing the differing treatment of separately classified unsecured claims in Chapter 13 falls, first on the Chapter 13 trustee, and then on the court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Williams · In Re Brigance“(1) designate a class or classes of unsecured claims, as provided in section 1122 of this title, but may not discriminate unfairly against any class so designated; however, such plan may treat claims for a consumer debt of the debtor if an individual is liable on such consumer debt with the debt- or differently than other unsecured claims.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Regine · In Re Strausser
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.