In Re Erwin’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 2009
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. § 1325 · 11 U.S.C. § 541
Relies on Cowan v. Cowan (In Re Scott) · Cohen v. Werner (In Re Cohen) · Hatlestad v. Mutual Trust Life Insurance Co. · Sanderson v. Engel · In Re Strong
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'A pledge of real property for the payment of a debt creates an equitable mortgage.' The divorce decree secured the former wife's equity in a lien which constitutes an equitable mortgage and as such is entitled to the same classification and treatment as the purchase money mortgages upon the Debtor's property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parker v. Donahue
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.