Walker v. M & M Dodge, Inc. (In Re Walker)’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Hardy v. United States ex rel. Internal Revenue Service (1996), Solow v. Kalikow (2010)
2 federal appellate · 2 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. § 105 · 11 U.S.C. § 348 · 11 U.S.C. § 362 · 11 U.S.C. § 524 · 11 U.S.C. § 727 · 28 U.S.C. § 1334 · 28 U.S.C. § 157
Relies on Grogan v. Garner · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Local Loan Co. v. Hunt · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Johnson v. Home State Bank
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(2) operates as an injunction against the commencement or continuation of an action, the employment of process, or an act, to collect, recover or offset any such debt as a personal liability of the debtor, whether or not discharge of such debt is waived.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Goodfellow · In Re Hassanally“(1) the debtor must enter into a reaffirmation agreement prior to discharge and file the agreement with the court; (2) the agreement must clearly and conspicuously state that the debtor may rescind the agreement prior to discharge or within sixty (60) days after the agreement is filed with the court, whichever is later; (3) the agreement is accompanied by an affidavit of the debtor’s attorney, if the debtor is represented, with a declaration that the agreement is an informed and voluntary agreement by the debtor and that the reaffirmed debt does not impose an undue hardship; (4) the debtor has not rescinded the agreement at the time of discharge or within sixty (60) days after it is filed with the court; and (5) compliance with the procedural requirements of § 524(d).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Lindley“to make it unequivocally unnecessary for the debtor to respond in the state court action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Hassanally
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.