In Re Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2017
3 federal appellate ·
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. § 101 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005) · 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] consumer debt does not include a debt to any extent the debt is secured by real property”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re Booth · In Re Kelly III“the debtor is found capable of fulfilling the terms of a chapter 13 repayment agreement”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Kelly III · Zolg v. Kelly“debt incurred by an individual primarily for a personal, family, or household purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Kelly III
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.