In Re Kolbe’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2011
1 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 11 U.S.C. § 1322 · 11 U.S.C. § 1325 · 11 U.S.C. § 1328 · 11 U.S.C. § 507 · 11 U.S.C. § 523
Relies on Leser Jj Mickelson v. J Leser K · Groves Groves v. V · McCullough v. Brown (In Re Brown) · In Re Lawson · McDonald v. Sperna (In Re Sperna)
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. Whether there is a rational basis for the classification; 2. Whether the classification is necessary to the debtor’s rehabilitation under chapter 13; 3. Whether the discriminatory classification is proposed in good faith; 4. Whether there is a meaningful payment to the class discriminated against;.... 5. The difference between what the creditors discriminated against will receive as the plan is proposed, and the amount they would receive if there was no separate classification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Etheridge
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.