In Re Bien’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2009
1 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. § 1325
Relies on Spector Motor Service, Inc. v. McLaughlin · Gulf Oil Co. v. Bernard · Jean v. Nelson · Warren v. Taff (In Re Taff) · Nelson v. Easley (In Re Easley)
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(2) For purposes of this subsection, “disposable income” means income which is received by the debtor and which is not reasonably necessary to be expended— (A) for the maintenance or support of the debtor or a dependent of the debtor;”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Reyes
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.