In Re Margaret J Myers Margaret J Myers’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Hamilton v. Lanning (2010), Hamilton v. Lanning (2010)
6 district · 2 state decisions
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 Albany Partners Ltd Albany Partners Ltd v. Wp Westbrook Albany Partners Ltd Wp Westbrook Ww C · Maritime Electric Co. v. United Jersey Bank · Schwartz v. United States · 26 1673 74636 James Wilson Associates Metropolitan Life Insurance Company · Soares v. Brockton Credit Union
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the nature of the debt; (2) the timing of the petition; (3) how the debt arose; (4) the debtor’s motive in filing the petition; (5) how the debtor’s actions affected creditors; (6) the debtor’s treatment of creditors both before and after the petition was filed; and (7) whether the debtor has been forthcoming with the bankruptcy court and the creditors.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]ctions in violation of the stay, although void (as opposed to voidable), may be revitalized in appropriate circumstances by retroactive annulment of the stay.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“grant relief from the [automatic] stay ... such as by terminating, annulling, modifying, or conditioning such stay,”
3 later decisions 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.