Draper III v. Draper’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently June 2008 · most notably Cohen v. Drexel Burnham Lambert Group, Inc. (In Re Drexel Burnham Lambert Group, Inc.) (1992), Dressler v. Dressler (In Re Dressler) (1996)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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
Relies on Long v. Calhoun · Williams v. Williams · Harrell v. Sharp · Warner v. Warner (In Re Warner) · In Re Terrence A. Knutson, Bankrupt. Northwest Airlines, Inc. v. Edward F. Klinger, Trustee in Bankruptcy and Terrence A. Knutson
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statutory language suggests a simple inquiry as to whether the obligation can legitimately be characterized as support, that is, whether it is in the nature of support. The language does not suggest a precise inquiry into financial circumstances to determine precise levels of need or support; nor does the statutory language contemplate an ongoing assessment of need as circumstances change.” * * * * # * “We conclude that Congress intended that bankruptcy courts make only a simple inquiry into whether or not the obligation at issue is in the nature of support. This inquiry will usually take the form of deciding whether the obligation was in the nature of support as opposed to being in the nature of a property settlement.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“For reversal appellate argues that the district court should have adopted a “needs” test similar to that set forth in In re Calhoun, 715 F.2d 1103 (6th Cir.1983), and Warner v. Warner, 5 B.R. 434 (Bankr.D.Utah 1980), to determine whether his obligations under the settlement agreement provisions in dispute were “actually in the nature of ... support.””
1 later decision 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.