Graven v. Fink’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Molitor v. Eidson (1996), U.S. West, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission (1999)
28 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
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. § 1208 · 11 U.S.C. § 1307 · 11 U.S.C. § 544 · 11 U.S.C. § 548 · 11 U.S.C. § 549
Relies on Grogan v. Garner · Local Loan Co. v. Hunt · Chapman v. Houston Welfare Rights Organization · Crandon v. United States · United States v. Morton
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On request of a party in interest, and after notice and a hearing, the court may dismiss a case under this chapter or convert a case under this chapter to a case under chapter 7 of this title upon a showing that the debtor has committed fraud in connection with the case.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“On request of the debtor at any time, if the case has not been converted under section 706 or 1112 of this title, the court shall dismiss a case under this chapter. Any waiver of the right to dismiss under this subsection is unenforceable.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Goza · In re Parker“Our holding on the interaction of subsections (b) and (d) does not conflict with the express language of subsection (b). Nothing in subsection (b) requires that a court act immediately upon a debtor’s request for a voluntary dismissal. Once fraud is found, the provisions of section 1208(d) are triggered and the court has the authority, under subsection (d), to dismiss the case or convert it to Chapter 7.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Goza · In Re Harper-Elder
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.