In Re Reich’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2002
2 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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. § 1129 · 11 U.S.C. § 502 · 11 U.S.C. § 507 · 11 U.S.C. § 523 · 11 U.S.C. § 524 · 28 U.S.C. § 1334
Relies on Bruning v. United States · Romero v. Romero · United States v. River Coal Co. · Razorback Ready-Mix Concrete Co. v. United States (In Re Razorback Ready-Mix Concrete Co.) · In Re New England Carpet Co., Inc.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he notion that any creditor can show up at the debtors' doorstep after discharge is granted and attempt to collect a discharged debt is ... offensive to the concept of the debtor's fresh start....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a penalty related to a claim of a kind specified in this paragraph and in compensation for actual pecuniary loss.”
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.