Waldron v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
536 F.3d 1239 · 2008
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Robinson v. Tyson Foods, Inc. (2010), Spaine v. Community Contacts, Inc. (2014)
3 federal appellate · 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 1306 · 11 U.S.C. § 1325 · 11 U.S.C. § 1329 · 11 U.S.C. § 521
Relies on Ryan Operations Gp Nvr Lp Nvr v. Santiam-Midwest Lumber Co Bright Wood Corp · Equitable Life Assurance Society v. Sublett · Burnes III v. Pemco Aeroplex Inc · Deans v. O'Donnell · Telfair v. First Union Mortgage Corp.
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Property of the [chapter 13 bankruptcy] estate includes, in addition to the property specified in section 541 of this title— (1) All property of the kind specified in such section that the debtor acquires after the commencement of the case but before the case is closed, dismissed, or converted ...”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“While the case is pending, the post-petition property ... [is] added to the estate until confirmation, the event that triggers [section] 1327(b) and “vests” the property of the estate in the debtor. That is, the property interests comprising the pre-confirmation estate property are transferred to the debtor at confirmation, and this “vesting” is free and clear of the claims or interests of creditors provided for by the plan, [section] 1327(b), (c). Finally, the property of the estate once again accumulates property by operation of [section] 1306(a) until the case is “closed, dismissed, or converted.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]xcept as otherwise provided in the plan or the order confirming the plan, the confirmation of a plan vests all of the property of the estate in the debtor.”
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.