In Re Kress’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2003 · most notably Zolg v. Kelly (1988), In re Walton (1989)
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. § 707
Relies on Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · North Dakota v. United States · In Re Grant · In Re Bryant · United States v. Hepp
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[I]t [is] both unfair to creditors and burdensome to the public at large to allow debtors to seek chapter 7 relief giving little or nothing to creditors where a substantial portion of those debts could be paid out of disposable income. Legislative history suggests that section 707(b) was primarily directed towards this kind of abuse.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Matter of Cord · Matter of Antal“2. Whether the debtors [sic] petition was filed as a consequence of illness, disability, unemployment or some other calamity; 3. Whether the schedules suggest the debtors incurred cash advancements and consumer purchases in excess of their ability to repay them; 4. Whether the debtors [sic] proposed family budget is excessive or extravagant; 5. Whether the debtors [sic] Statement of Income and Expenses is misrepresen-tative of their true financial condition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Walton
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.