In Re Polak’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 2010
4 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. § 1301
Relies on Tenney v. Terry · In Re Hurd · Loc. Joint Exec. Bd., AFL-CIO v. Hotel Circle, Inc. · Matter of Cook · In Re Schongalla
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Chapter 13 * * * protects a debtor’s credit standing far better than a straight bankruptcy, because he is viewed by the credit industry as a better risk. In addition it satisfies many debtors’ desire to avoid the stigma attached to straight bankruptcy and to retain the pride attendant on being able to meet one’s obligations. The benefit to creditors is self-evident: their losses will be significantly less than if their debtors opt for straight bankruptcy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ravenot v. Rimgale“As in current law, 100 percent payment plans will be encouraged by the limitation on availability of a [second, later] discharge in section 727(a)(8). This kind of plan has provided great self-satisfaction and pride to those debtors who complete them [sic], and at the same time effect a maximum return to creditors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ravenot v. Rimgale“While Chapter 13 is much more flexible and provides the debtor with increased protections, there is nothing in the committee reports suggesting Congress turned away from one of its primary objectives in Chapter XIII, that is, encouraging a debtor to repay his debts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.