Hester v. Powell (In Re Hester)’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2014
1 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. § 1305 · 11 U.S.C. § 1322 · 11 U.S.C. § 1328 · 11 U.S.C. § 502 · 11 U.S.C. § 507
Relies on Ohio v. Kovacs · Roach v. Edge (In Re Edge) · Richards v. United States (In Re Richards) · In Re Pritchett · 256 F. Supp. 1 - In Re Gates
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.
“[t]he holder of ... a postpetition claim may refrain from filing proof of the postpetition claim, thereby waiving the right to distribution under the chapter 13 plan, in hopes of recovering against the debtor after the closing of the case”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] bankruptcy case under chapter 7 or chapter 13 of the Code does not, as a general rule, affect a postpetition claim”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.