In Re Zurface’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 2014
2 federal appellate · 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 1208 · 11 U.S.C. § 1225 · 11 U.S.C. § 1325 · 11 U.S.C. § 544 · 26 U.S.C. § 351 · 28 U.S.C. § 1334 · 28 U.S.C. § 157
Relies on United States v. Estus · Hardin v. Caldwell · Prudential Insurance v. Monnier · Johnson v. Vanguard Holding Corp. · Metro Employees Credit Union v. Okoreeh-Baah
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 17 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.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Graven v. Fink · In Re Caldwell“relief under Chapter 12 is available only to the honest debtor who is making a sincere effort to repay creditors.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Graven · Graven v. Fink
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.