In the Matter of Bernard Armstrong, Debtor-Appellant’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably In Re Rott (1987), Matter of McGovern (1990)
3 district ·
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 In Re Jerome Thomas Lafond · Yoder v. United States (In Re Yoder) · In Re Blanton Smith Corp. · In Re Dakota Lay'd Eggs · Flick v. United States Through Farmers Home Admin.
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(17) "family farmer" means— (A) individual or individual and spouse engaged in a farming operation ... not less than 80 percent of whose aggregate noncontingent, liquidated debts (excluding a debt for the principal residence of such individual ... unless such debt arises out of a farming operation), on the date the case is filed, arise out of a farming operation [[Image here]]”
10 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Saunders · In Re Swanson“farming, tillage of the soil, dairy farming, ranching, production or raising of crops, poultry, or livestock, and production of poultry or livestock products in an unmanufactured state.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“[ijmplicit in this definition is the inclusion of general activities inherent in farming and, we believe, the means (or in this case the equipment) necessary to perpetuate the farming operation the definition speaks of. When a farmer sells some of his machinery in an effort to scale down his operation ... and save the farm, the money received is inescapably from the 50% of the farming operation dissolved. 812 F.2d at 1026 .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Smith · Matter of Rinker
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.