West v. Costen’s Empirical Analysis
826 F.2d 1376 · 1987
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2017
3 federal appellate · 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. § 1328 · 11 U.S.C. § 1329 · 11 U.S.C. § 523 · 15 U.S.C. § 1692 (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act)
Relies on In Re Shaffer · In Re Eves · Fireman's Fund American Insurance v. Tackaberry (In Re Tackaberry)
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A plan modified under this section may not provide for payments over a period that expires after three years after the time that the first payment under the original confirmed plan was due, unless the court, for cause, approves a longer period, but the court may not approve a period that expires after five years after such time.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although Costen filed his original plan on May 4, 1981, and the bankruptcy court ordered him (on May 12) to start making payments with the next pay period, the plan was not confirmed until September 4, 1981. The due date of the first payment after September 4 was “the time that the first payment under the original confirmed plan was due.” Id. Payment under the modified plan could therefore have extended until September 1986 and, since Costen made his final payment in July 1986, he met the five year statutory deadline.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Serna
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.