in Re: Stephen McDonald’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 174 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Official Committee of Unsecureds of Cybergenics Corporation Cybergenics Corporation v. Chinery L&s Lp, Ronald Bartee Ronald Bartee v. Tara Colony Homeowners Association Daniel E O'Connell
37 federal appellate · 9 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
Relies on Dewsnup v. Timm · Taylor v. Freeland & Kronz · Nobelman v. American Savings Bank · United States National Bank v. Independent Insurance Agents of America, Inc. · Gilmore v. Taylor
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 174 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“modify the rights of holders of secured claims, other than a claim secured only by a security interest in real property that is the debtor's principal residence....”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Appellate courts that dismiss these expressions [in dicta] and strike off on their own increase the disparity among tribunals (for other judges are likely to follow the Supreme Court's marching orders) and frustrate the evenhanded administration of justice by giving litigants an outcome other than the one the Supreme Court would be likely to reach were the case heard there.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) An allowed claim of a creditor secured by a lien on property in which the estate has an interest, or that is subject to setoff under section 553 of this title, is a secured claim to the extent of the value of such creditor’s interest in the estate’s interest in such property, or to the extent of the amount subject to setoff, as the case may bee, and is an unsecured claim to the extent that the value of such creditor’s interest or the amount so subject to setoff is less than the amount of such allowed claim. Such value shall be determined in light of the purpose of the valuation and of the proposed disposition or use of such property, and in conjunction with any hearing on such disposition or use or on a plan affecting such creditor’s interest. 11 U.S.C. § 506 (a).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.