In Re Schwartz’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2007 · most notably Smith v. Commercial Banking Corp. (1989), In Re Jablonski (1987)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
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. § 362 · 11 U.S.C. § 506 · 15 U.S.C. § 1601 (§ 102 of the Truth in Lending Act)
Relies on Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · Johnson v. Righetti · Commonwealth v. Monumental Properties, Inc. · Johnson v. Righetti · Thomka v. A. Z. Chevrolet, 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“With regard to residential mortgages, no residential mortgage lender shall ... receive attorney’s fees from a residential mortgage debtor except as follows: ... (2) Upon commencement of foreclosure or other legal action with respect to a residential mortgage, attorney’s fees which are reasonable and actually incurred by the residential mortgage lender may be charged to the residential mortgage debtor. (3) Prior to commencement of foreclosure or other legal action attorney’s fees which are reasonable and actually incurred not in excess of fifty dollars ($50)....”
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.