In Re: Arthur Lionel Scovis’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
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How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably In Re Thomas James Dyer (2003), In Re Dennis Leroy Saxman (2003)
1 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 St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co · Owen v. Owen · Zolg v. Kelly · Bonner Mall Partnership v. U.S. Bancorp Mortgage Co. · Comprehensive Accounting Corp. v. Pearson
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] vast majority of courts, and all circuit courts that have considered the issue, have held that the unsecured portion of undersecured debt is counted as unsecured for § 109(e) eligibility purposes.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Eligibility should normally be determined by the debtor’s originally filed schedules, checking only to see if the schedules were made in good faith.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““[A] claim secured only by a lien which is avoidable by a declared exemption is unsecured for § 109(e) purposes.... In In re Slack, ... we included in the eligibility determination readily ascertainable amounts, even though liability on the debt had not been finally decided.... This principle of certainty carries equal force in the present context, where the homestead exemption’s effect on the status of Debtors’ debt as secured or unsecured is readily ascertainable.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.