In Re Tanke’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
February 1984
most recently cited
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 1307 · 11 U.S.C. § 1324 · 11 U.S.C. § 1325
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]his case couples recent egregious fraud with no good faith effort to repay the victim. To confirm this plan would, in effect, make the bankruptcy court the Debtors’ instrument for perpetrating a fraud .... [I]t would ignore the plain meaning of the statute requiring that a plan be proposed in good faith.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Terry
How this case has been treated — in progress
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