In Re Elrod’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2010
1 federal appellate ·
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. § 502 · 11 U.S.C. § 506 · 11 U.S.C. § 523 · 11 U.S.C. § 541 · 11 U.S.C. § 544
Relies on United States v. Whiting Pools, Inc. · Elin v. Busche (In Re Elin) · Dinkins v. U. S. Postal Service · Massey v. Holmes · Herman Bros. v. Katz Bros.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) A discharge ... does not discharge an individual debtor from any debt— (5) to a spouse, former spouse, or child of the debtor, for alimony to, maintenance for, or support of such spouse or child, in connection with a separation agreement, divorce decree, or property settlement agreement ....”
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.