In the Matter of Ronald J. Witkowski, Debtor-Appellant’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 131 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably In the Matter of Marvin C. THIRTYACRE, Debtor-Appellant (1994), Marcelino Barbosa
4 district · 1 state decisions
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 · 11 U.S.C. § 1327 · 11 U.S.C. § 1329 · 11 U.S.C. § 350
Relies on Montana v. United States · Astoria Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Solimino · Burlington Northern Railroad v. Oklahoma Tax Commission · Isbrandtsen Co. v. Johnson · Goeb v. Heid
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 131 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he provisions of a confirmed plan bind the debtor....”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) At any time after confirmation of the plan but before the completion of payments under such plan, the plan may be modified, upon request of the debtor, the trustee, or the holder of an allowed unsecured claim, to- il) increase or reduce the amount of payments on claims of a particular class provided for by the plan; (2) extend or reduce the time for such payments; or (3) alter the amount of the distribution to a creditor whose claim is provided for by the plan to the extent necessary to take account of any payment of such claim other than under the plan. (b)(1) Sections 1322(a), 1322(b), and 1323(c) of this title and the requirements of section 1325(a) of this title apply to any modification under subsection (a) of this section.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Anderson · In Re Kieta“Sections 1322(a), 1322(b), and 1323(c) of this title and the requirements of section 1325(a) of this title apply to any modification under subsection (a) of this section.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Smith · In re Powers
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.