In Re Ballard’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Federal Land Bank v. Glenn (1985), Balbus Brown and Company Securities Corporation v. Balbus (1991)
2 federal appellate · 2 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.
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 41 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, or of holders of unsecured claims, .... ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“§ 109(e) represents a compromise between H.R. 8200 as passed by the House and the Senate amendment relating to the dollar amounts of restricting eligibility to be a debtor under chapter 13 of title II. The House amendment adheres to the limit of $100,000 placed on unsecured debts in H.R. 8200 as passed by the House. It adopts a midpoint of $350,000 as a limit on secured claims, a compromise between the level of $500,-000 in H.R. 8200 as passed by the House and $200,000 as contained in the Senate amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Morton“the debt remain[ed] unsecured as a result of the valuation test [of section 506(a) ], the unsecured portion [became] a part of the debt not represented to be secured by any interest in property of the debtor.”
1 later decision 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.