In Re Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 2000
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. § 524
Relies on Winters National Bank & Trust Co. v. Coots (In Re Coots)
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the course of conducting discharge hearings in this court, we had heretofore thought no proposition so clear as that a reaffirmation agreement concerning mortgaged real estate is binding on the debtor, regardless of whether the judge gives such a contract his official approval in open court.” [Emphasis added] Smith, 35 B.R. at 95 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Roth
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.