In Re Willingham’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2006
1 federal appellate ·
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. § 1225 · 11 U.S.C. § 1325
Relies on In Re Fries · In Re Janssen Charolais Ranch, Inc. · In Re O'Farrell · In Re Hansen · In Re Fauth
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(b)(1) If the Trustee or the holder of an allowed unsecured claim objects to the confirmation of the Plan, then the Court may not approve the Plan, unless, as of the effective date of the Plan ... (B) the Plan provides that all of the Debtor’s projected disposable income to be received in the [period of the Plan] ... will be applied to make payments under the Plan.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Borg
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.