In Re Todd’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably In the Matter of Kenneth W Smith Appeal of State of Indiana, Nelson v. Easley (In Re Easley) (1987)
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. § 1322 · 11 U.S.C. § 1325 · 11 U.S.C. § 1328 · 11 U.S.C. § 523 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Scheuer v. Rhodes · Monroe v. Pape · United States v. Estus · Memphis Bank & Trust Co. v. Whitman · Kitchens v. Georgia Railroad Bank & Trust Co.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here debtors have filed for bankruptcy soon after the entry of a judgment ..., courts have found that such filing indicates debtor's desire to use bankruptcy procedures to avoid paying a debt rather than for rehabilitation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The good faith requirement 'has long been the policing mechanism of bankruptcy courts....'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“obligations are dischargeable under Chapter 13 yet nondischargeable under Chapters 7 or 11”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Graves v. Myrvang
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.