In Re Colfer’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2016
2 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. § 101 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005) · 11 U.S.C. § 1122 · 11 U.S.C. § 1322 · 11 U.S.C. § 507 · 11 U.S.C. § 522 · 11 U.S.C. § 523
Relies on Grogan v. Garner · Cramer v. Mammoth Mart, Inc. · Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance v. Greystone III Joint Venture · In re Szostek · Briscoe Enterprises Ltd II Heartland Federal Savings Loan Association v. Briscoe Enterprises Ltd II Regalridge Apartments
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any analysis of the relative benefits (and detriments) resulting from the proposed discrimination must be undertaken in light of the impact of the discrimination on Congress’ chosen statutory definition of the legitimate interests and expectations of parties-in-interest to Chapter 13 proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Etheridge“Congress has made the call. The courts should not approve as “fair” discriminatory classification schemes “needed” only for the purpose of mitigating the consequences of statutory discharge exceptions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“As to educational loans specifically, if Congress had intended to give educational loan obligations a distributional priority, it could have ... by including them in the list of statutory priorities.”
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.