Barrett’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

cited by 61 later decisions

October 2022

most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 5 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably WesBanco Bank Barnesville v. Rafoth (1997), Laguna Associates Limited Partnership Laguna Associates Limited Partnership v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Company (1994)

2 federal appellate · 5 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

Relies on Johnson v. Home State Bank · Memphis Bank & Trust Co. v. Whitman · Kitchens v. Georgia Railroad Bank & Trust Co. · Hardin v. Caldwell · In the Matter of John Joseph METZ, Debtor. DOWNEY SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, Appellant, v. John Joseph METZ, Appellee

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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“(1) the debtor’s income; (2) the debtor’s living expenses; (3) the debtor’s attorney’s fees; (4) the expected duration of the Chapter 13 plan; (5) the sincerity with which the debtor has petitioned for relief under Chapter 13; (6) the debtor’s potential for future earning; (7) any special circumstances, such as unusually high medical expenses; (8) the frequency with which the debtor has sought relief before in bankruptcy; (9) the circumstances under which the debt was incurred; (10) the amount of payment offered by [the] debtor as indicative of the debtor’s sincerity to repay the debt; (11) the burden which administration would place on the trustee; (12) the statutorily mandated policy that bankruptcy provisions be construed liberally in favor of the debtor.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Alt v. United States · In Re Sexton
“Our circuit's good faith test requires consideration of the totality of circumstances.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. JE Livestock, Inc. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (In Re JE Livestock, Inc.) · Laguna Associates Limited Partnership Laguna Associates Limited Partnership v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Company
“[A]s long as the court sufficiently considered Barrett’s prior conduct under the totality of circumstances test, the exact manner in which the bankruptcy court weighed the prior conduct is irrelevant given the bankruptcy court’s discretionary power in making a determination of good faith. See Okoreeh-Baah, 836 F.2d at 1033 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Grand Traverse Development Co. v. Board of Trustees of the General Retirement System (In Re Grand Traverse Development Co.)

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.