Matthews v. Pineo’s Empirical Analysis

19 F.3d 121 · 1994

Citation profile

cited by 19 later decisions

March 2012

most recently cited

8 federal appellate ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2012

8 federal appellate ·

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 42 U.S.C. § 254 · 42 U.S.C. § 254E · 42 U.S.C. § 254I · 42 U.S.C. § 254L · 42 U.S.C. § 254O

Relies on Smith v. United States · Perrin v. United States · United States v. Green (In Re Green) · United States v. Quinn (In Re Quinn)

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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“In ordinary usage, the term “unconscionable” means “excessive, exorbitant,” “lying outside the limits of what is reasonable or acceptable,” “shockingly unfair, harsh, or unjust,” or “outrageous.” Webster’s Third New International Dictionary 2486 (1977). In the absence of contrary indications, we presume that Congress, in employing the term “unconscionable” in Section 254o(d)(3)(A), means to adopt this definition. See Smith v. United States, 508 U.S. 223, 228-30 , 113 S.Ct. 2050, 2054 , 124 L.Ed.2d 138 (1993); Perrin v. United States, 444 U.S. 37, 42 , 100 S.Ct. 311, 314 , 62 L.Ed.2d 199 (1979). We note that other bankruptcy courts — and, indeed, the bankruptcy court in this case — -have adopted essentially the same definition. See, e.g., In re Green, 82 B.R. 955, 959 (Bankr.N.D.Ill.1988); In re Quinn, 102 B.R. 865, 867 (Bankr.M.D.Fla.1989).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Student Loan Marketing Ass'n v. Zierden-Landmesser (In Re Zierden-Landmesser) · Greco v. Sallie Mae Servicing Corp. (In Re Greco)
“[t]he proper inquiry is whether it would be `unconscionable' to require [the debtor] to take any available steps to earn more income”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Barrows v. Illinois Student Assistance Commission (In Re Barrows) · U.S. Department of Health & Human Services v. Smitley

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