In Re Waldman’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2015
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. § 1328 · 11 U.S.C. § 502 · 11 U.S.C. § 522 · 11 U.S.C. § 523
Relies on Foster v. Heitkamp · In Re Jablonski · In Re Evans · In Re Souders · In Re Furlow
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Therefore, what we are holding, in essence, is that, when a debtor opts to deal with a creditor “outside the Plan” and, thus, as if the bankruptcy never existed as to that creditor, the debtor must forebear use of the Code to affect the rights of the secured creditor in any other way.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Vincente
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.