In Re Montano’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably Amfac Distribution Corp. v. Wolff (In Re Wolff) (1982), In Re Dziedzic (1981)
2 federal appellate · 3 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.
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 1122 · 11 U.S.C. § 1322 · 11 U.S.C. § 1325
Relies on In Re Iacovoni · In Re Beaver · In Re Burrell · Matter of Marlow · Scherk v. Newton
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he court, in determining 'meaningfulness,' will look at each plan on a case-by-case basis, weighing both the interests of creditors and the debtors in light of the rehabilitative goals of Chapter 13.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Barnes · Barnes v. Whelan“(b) ... the plan may (1) designate a class or classes of unsecured claims, as provided in section 1122 of this title, but may not discriminate unfairly against any class so designated;”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Barnes v. Whelan · In Re Barnes“mere existence of a co-debtor is not legally sufficient to justify separate classification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barnes v. Whelan
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.