Dewsnup v. Timm’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
458 federal appellate · 195 district · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,196 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Smith v. United States (1993), Patterson v. Shumate (1992)
458 federal appellate · 195 district · 71 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 103 · 11 U.S.C. § 107 · 11 U.S.C. § 1101 · 11 U.S.C. § 1129 · 11 U.S.C. § 1322 · 11 U.S.C. § 1328 · 11 U.S.C. § 362 · 11 U.S.C. § 363
Relies on United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · United Sav. Assn. of Tex. v. Timbers of Inwood Forest Associates, Ltd. · Johnson v. Home State Bank · Kelly v. Robinson
Cited together with United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Nobelman v. American Savings Bank · Johnson v. Home State Bank · United Sav. Assn. of Tex. v. Timbers of Inwood Forest Associates, Ltd. · Butner v. United States
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 3,196 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(d) To the extent that a lien secures a claim against the debtor that is not an allowed secured claim, such lien is void, unless— (1) such claim was disallowed only under section 502(b)(5) or 502(e) of this title; or (2) such claim is not an allowed secured claim due only to the failure of any entity to file a proof of such claim under section 501 of this title.”
286 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) The court shall confirm a plan only if all of the following requirements are met: (7) With respect to each impaired class of claims or interests— (B) if section 1111(b)(2) of this title applies to the claims of such class, each holder of a claim of such class will receive or retain under the plan on account of such claim property of a value, as of the effective date of the plan, that is not less than the value of such hold er’s interest in the estate’s interest in the property that secures such claims.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. In Re Young · In Re Moore“allowed secured claim” in 11 U.S.C. § 506 (a) do not mean the same thing as those same words in 11 U.S.C. § 506 (d). However, as the Court "express[ed] no opinion as to whether the words 'allowed secured claim’ have different meaning in other provisions of the Bankruptcy Code,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.