Leser Jj Mickelson v. J Leser K’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably United States ex rel. Agricultural Stabilization & Conservation Service v. Gerth (1993), Adams v. Zentz (1992)
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Relies on Hanson v. First Bank of South Dakota, N.A. · Council of & for the Blind of Delaware County Valley, Inc. v. Regan · Bankr. L. Rep. P 71,860, 3 Ucc rep.serv.2d 1700 Thomas E. Wegner v. Cecelia Grunewaldt, Trustee Valley National Bank, a National Banking Corporation and the South Dakota Department of Revenue · In Re Iacovoni · Amfac Distribution Corp. v. Wolff (In Re Wolff)
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether the discrimination has a reasonable basis; (2) whether the debtor can carry out a plan without the discrimination; (3) whether the discrimination is proposed in good faith; and (4) whether the degree of discrimination is directly related to the basis or rationale for the discrimination.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“designate a class or classes of unsecured claims [for purposes of repayment] but may not discriminate unfairly against any class so designated.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“as long as the classification 1) complies with section 1122 of the Code and 2) does not result in unfair discrimination between the claims grouped separately.”
3 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.