In Re Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 1328 · 11 U.S.C. § 522 · 11 U.S.C. § 523
Relies on In Re Iacovoni · In Re Cloutier · Johnson v. Seely (In Re Seely) · 186 F. Supp. 125 - In Re Village Men's Shops, Inc.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]ot all long-term debts are entitled to be excepted from discharge ... but only those debts which the debtor wishes to continue treating as long-term debts.”
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.