In Re Fries’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably Education Assistance Corp. v. Zellner (1987), Russell v. Fidelity Consumer Discount Co. (In Re Russell) (1987)
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. § 1322 · 11 U.S.C. § 1325
Relies on United States v. Cirami · DeMarines v. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines · Foster v. Heitkamp · Colegrove Cardinal Federal Savings Loan Association v. E Colegrove · Foster Mortgage Corp. v. Terry
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The plan may not provide for payments over a period that is longer than three years, unless the court, for cause approves a longer period, but the court may not approve a period that is longer than five years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Norris“the initial burden of producing satisfactory evidence to support the contention that the debtor is not applying all of his disposable income”
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.