In the Matter of Jane Marlene Busick, Debtor-Appellee’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Bartmann v. Maverick Tube Corp. (1988), Subway Equipment Leasing Corp. v. Sims (1993)
10 federal appellate · 5 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 Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond · Kuehner v. Irving Trust Co. · In Re Lough · In Re Johnston Hawks, Ltd. · In Re Stroop
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“determine whether there is an objective basis for either a factual or a legal dispute as to the validity of the debt.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“objective test, " first set out in In re Lough, 57 B.R. 993, 996-97 (E.D. Mich. 1986) ("[I]f there is either a genuine issue of material fact that bears upon the debtor's liability, or a meritorious contention as to the application of law to undisputed facts, then the petition must be dismissed.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... [T]he bankruptcy court must determine whether there is an objective basis for either a factual or legal dispute as to the validity of the debt. However, “[t]he statute does not require the court to determine the outcome of any dispute, only its presence or absence. Only a limited analysis of the claims at issue is necessary.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.