Witkowski v. Knight (Witkowski)’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 101 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005) · 11 U.S.C. § 362 · 28 U.S.C. § 158
Relies on Fleet Data Processing Corp. v. Branch (In Re Bank of New England Corp.) · Boylan v. George E. Bumpus, Jr. Construction Co. (In Re George E. Bumpus, Jr. Construction Co.) · Lessard v. Wilton-Lyndeborough Cooperative School District · Lugo v. De Jesus Saez · Roach Ht First National Bank of Anchorage and Alaska Title Guaranty Company v. T Roach
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“effectively stop all creditor collection efforts, stop all harassment of a debtor seeking relief, and to maintain the status quo between the debtor and [its] creditors, thereby affording the parties and the [c]ourt an opportunity to appropriately resolve competing economic interests in an orderly and effective way.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] debtor who is an individual in a case....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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