Fortney Freund 12’s Empirical Analysis

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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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “denies confirmation to any plan which provides unsecured creditors with less compensation than they would receive upon liquidation of the farm.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re CF Beef & Grain, LLC · In re Blake

2. “A fundamental purpose of the disposable income provision is to prevent large expenditures by debtors for non-essential items which ultimately reduce the sum available to pay holders of unsecured claims.... This Court ... will not permit [the debtor] to acquire goods or services not reasonably necessary for support at the- expense of the unpaid, unsecured creditors. The purposes of [the disposable income test] would be ill-served if the Court were to allow the debtor in the instant case to [finance] purely recreational property not reasonably necessary for maintenance or support of the debtor ... while his general unsecured creditors are to receive, over an extended period of time, less than half of the total amount of their claims.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Burger