In Re Looney’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 2015
2 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. § 1307
Relies on Nash v. Kester · In Re Anastasios · In Re Gillion · In Re Merritt · Matter of Hearn
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.
“[o]n request of the debtor at any time, if the case has not been converted under section 706, 1112, or 1208 of this title, the court shall dismiss a case under this chapter.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Tyndall · Molitor v. Eidson
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.