Fobian v. Western Farm Credit Bank’s Empirical Analysis
951 F.2d 1149 · 1991
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2019 · most notably Travelers Casualty & Surety Co. of America v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (2007), Western Farm Credit Bank v. Fobian (1992)
24 federal appellate · 3 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. § 1225
Relies on Johnson v. Righetti · Collingwood Grain, Inc. v. Coast Trading Co. · Rubin v. West · Grove v. Fulwiler
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However, where the litigated issues involve not basic contract enforcement questions, but issues peculiar to federal bankruptcy law, attorney's fees will not be awarded absent bad faith or harassment by the losing party.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where a contract ... provides for an award of attorneys' fees, a creditor may be entitled to such fees in bankruptcy proceedings. Such an award is governed by state law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(b)(1) [A]s of the effective date of the plan— (A) the value of the property to be distributed under the plan on account of such claim is not less than the amount of such claim; or (B) the plan provides that all of the debtor’s projected disposable income to be received in the three-year period, or such longer period as the court may approve under section 1222(c), beginning on the date that the first payment is due under the plan will be applied to make payments under the plan.”
1 later decision 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.