United States v. Devall’s Empirical Analysis
704 F.2d 1513 · 1983
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Hagel v. Drummond (In Re Hagel) (1995), Mort Ranta v. Gorman (2013)
19 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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. § 101 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005) · 11 U.S.C. § 109 · 11 U.S.C. § 1301 · 11 U.S.C. § 1325 · 11 U.S.C. § 303 · 11 U.S.C. § 522 · 11 U.S.C. § 541 · 42 U.S.C. § 1381 (§ 1601 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · Morton v. Mancari · Radzanower v. Touche Ross & Co. · Posadas v. National City Bank · United States v. Will
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the plan complies with the provisions of this chapter and with the other applicable provisions of this title; (2) any fee, charge, or amount required under chapter 123 of title 28, or by the plan, to be paid before confirmation, has been paid; (3) the plan has been proposed in good faith and not by any means forbidden by law; (4) the value, as of the effective date of the plan, of property to be distributed under the plan on account of each allowed unsecured claim is not less than the amount that would be paid on such claim if the estate of the debtor were liquidated under chapter 7 of this title on such date; (5) with respect to each allowed secured claim provided for by the plan— (C) the debtor surrenders the property securing such claim to such holder; and (6) the debtor will be able to make all payments under the plan and to comply with the plan.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“order any entity from whom the debtor receives income to pay all or any part of such income to the trustee.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all legal or equitable interests of the debtor in property as of the commencement of the case,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.