In Re Bryant’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Zolg v. Kelly (1988), In re Walton (1989)
4 federal appellate · 1 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. § 707
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In like measure, the Debtor claims expenses of $100.00 per month for dining out and for going to movies. He claims another $65.00 per month for cable television. Even if these amounts are accurate, the Court has serious questions about their appropriateness for a Debtor in Chapter 7. While Congress intended to give the debtors relief in such cases, it was not the design of the Bankruptcy laws to allow the Debtor to lead the life of Riley while his creditors suffer on his behalf.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Mastroeni · In Re Kitson
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.