In Re Ralph a Lewis Appeal of Ralph a Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Lee Servicing Co. v. Wolf (In Re Wolf) (1993), Kaplan v. First Options of Chicago, Inc. (1995)
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
Relies on Blakey v. Pierce (In Re Blakey) · In Re Lewis · In re Lewis
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“becomes important in the handling of creditors with a lien on property that is worth less than the amount of their claim, that is, those creditors that are undersecured.... By addressing the problem in terms of claims, the [Code] makes clear that an [under]secured creditor is to be treated as having a secured claim to the extent of the value of the collateral, and an unsecured claim for the balance of his claim against the debtor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An allowed claim of a creditor secured by a lien on property in which the estate has an interest ... is a secured claim to the extent of the value of such creditor’s interest in the estate’s interest in such property ... and is an unsecured claim to the extent that the value of such creditor’s interest ... is less than the amount of such allowed claim. Such value shall be determined in light of the purpose of the valuation and of the proposed disposition or use of such property, and in conjunction with any hearing on such disposition or use or on a plan affecting such creditor’s interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“modify the rights of holders of secured claims, other than a claim secured only by a security interest in real property that is the debtor's principal residence.”
1 later decision 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.