In Re Bigalk’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 2006
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. § 101 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005) · 11 U.S.C. § 1201 · 11 U.S.C. § 1301 · 11 U.S.C. § 362 · 11 U.S.C. § 522 · 11 U.S.C. § 541 · 28 U.S.C. § 1334 · 28 U.S.C. § 1452
Relies on 11 1024 70155 Thompson Thompson · Cyrus v. Cyrus · In Re Oliver · Abraham & Straus v. Francis (In Re Francis) · Hossfeldt v. Dill
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] creditor may not act, or commence or continue any civil action, to collect all or any part of a consumer debt of the debtor from any individual that is liable on such debt with the debtor____”
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.