16 1263 71813 Chaffin Chaffin’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
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How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably In the Matter of Kenneth W Smith Appeal of State of Indiana, Handeen v. A
1 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 1325
Relies on Goeb v. Heid · Rimgale Ravenot v. S Rimgale · Public Finance Corp. v. Eddie · Street v. Lawson (In Re Street) · In Re Bonder
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]lthough the debtor's motive in invoking Chapter 13 solely to obtain discharge of a[n] [otherwise] non-dischargeable debt, as well as the circumstances under which that debt arose, may be factors to consider as part of the totality of the circumstances, they cannot, as a matter of law, suffice to show bad faith.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“At the time this court decided Rimgale, Congress had already legislated specifically that certain debts are nondischargeable in Chapter 13. See 11 U.S.C. § 1328(a)(1), (2) (alimony and child support) and 42 U.S.C. § 294f(g) (Health Education Assistance Loan Program Act loans). ‘Congress could have easily added more exceptions to the list in § 1328(a) had it so intended. Absent some other evidence of lack of good faith, therefore, merely seeking the benefit of § 1328(a) does not stamp the debt- or's application with bad faith.’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no list is exhaustive of all the conceivable factors which could be relevant when analyzing a particular debtor’s good faith. It would be impossible to provide such a list and we have not attempted to do so. We also stress that no one factor should be viewed as being a dispositive indication of the debtor’s good faith. We agree with the Fifth Circuit that “[t]he ‘totality of the circumstances’ test means what it says: It exacts an examination of all the facts in order to determine the bona fídes of the debtor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Mehlhose
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.