18 477 72162 Chaffin Chaffin’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably In the Matter of Kenneth W Smith Appeal of State of Indiana, Handeen v. A
5 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
Relies on Little Creek Development Co. v. Commonwealth Mortgage Corp. · United States v. Estus · Memphis Bank & Trust Co. v. Whitman · Deans v. O'Donnell · Flygare v. Boulden
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 73 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.”
7 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.