In Re: James Slack’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably Robert Gruntz Robert Gruntz v. Opinion County of Los Angeles (2000), In Re: Arthur Lionel Scovis (2001)
2 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Comprehensive Accounting Corp. v. Pearson · Mazzeo v. United States · Sylvester v. Dow Jones & Co. (In Re Sylvester) · Fostvedt v. Dow · United States v. Verdunn
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.
“Whether a debt is subject to `ready determination' depends on whether the amount is easily calculable or whether an extensive hearing is needed to determine the amount of the debt.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Fredricksen · In re Aparicio“bankruptcy court cannot look to post-petition events to determine the amount of the debt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(e) Only an individual with regular income that owes, on the date of the filing of the petition, noncontingent, liquidated, unsecured debts of less than $290,525 and noncontingent, liquidated, secured debts of less than $871,550 or an individual with regular income and such individual’s spouse, except a stockbroker or a commodity broker, that owe, on the date of the filing of the petition, noncontingent, liquidated, unsecured debts that aggregate less than $290,525 and noncontingent, liquidated, secured debts of less than $871,550 may be a debtor under chapter 18 of this title.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Wiencko
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.