Bryant v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2010
1 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. § 341 · 11 U.S.C. § 522
Relies on Pioneer Investment Services Company v. Brunswick Associates Limited Partnership · Red Carpet Corporation of Panama City Beach Hatcher v. Miller · Oppenheim, Appel, Dixon & Co. v. Bullock · First of America Bank v. Gaylor (In Re Gaylor) · Davis
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court finds that untimely filed schedules waive a debtor's exemption unless the untimely filing is permitted by the bankruptcy judge in his discretion for cause shown or excusable neglect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Petit v. Fessenden“Cause shown” is a liberal standard investing the bankruptcy judge with considerable flexibility. The same might also be said for”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Park
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.