In Re Michael Watson’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 22 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Kibbe v. Sumski (2007), Hankins v. Lyght (2006)
6 federal appellate · 22 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
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Griggs v. Provident Consumer Discount Co. · Gillespie v. United States Steel Corp. · McCoy v. Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Ronald Bartee Ronald Bartee v. Tara Colony Homeowners Association Daniel E O'Connell
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To allow the Watsons to pay parochial school tuition over the life of the proposed plan would require already severely reduced creditors to fund the private education of the Watsons’ children. We can appreciate the importance attached by the Watsons to the religious values of a parochial school education. Still, it is not impossible to inculcate those values outside of a school, and the court could reasonably conclude, in the circumstances presented here, that it would be improper to impose the added expense on the Watsons’ unpaid creditors where the children’s educational needs could otherwise be met in the public schools. There was no clear er ror in the bankruptcy court’s determination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Maura“he, his wife, and his two children are devout Catholics who attend church every Sunday and during all the holy days of obligation. [The Debtor] testified that he is actively involved in church ministry, and that his children have been assisting at mass since the third grade. [Debtor] stated that he and his wife have always sent their children to parochial schools because they value the importance such schools place on God.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Maura“The filing of a notice of appeal is an event of jurisdictional significance-it confers jurisdiction on the court of appeals and divests the district court of its control over those aspects of the case involved in the appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.