Kornfield v. Schwartz’s Empirical Analysis
164 F.3d 778 · 1999
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably In Re William M. Behlke (2004), In Re Jeffrey D. Stewart
6 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. § 707
Relies on Zolg v. Kelly · In Re Charles Ellsworth Krohn AKA Charles E. Krohn, Appellant/debtor · Green v. Staples · In re Walton · Stuart v. Koch
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“After notice and a hearing, the court, on its own motion or on a motion by the United States trustee ... may dismiss a case filed by an individual debtor under this chapter whose debts are primarily consumer debts ... if it finds that the granting of relief would be an abuse of the provisions of this chapter.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Haddad · In Re Oot“the Bankruptcy Rules themselves implicitly recognize the legitimacy of such participation”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“but not at the request or suggestion of any party in interest”
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.