In Re Kirkus’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently February 2015
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. § 302
Relies on In Re Austin
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... [Tjhere may be some instances when a joinder by a spouse may be desirable and helpful. The court concludes that any such determination should be made on a case-by-case basis giving consideration to the protection and best interests of creditors and debtors of the separate estates.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Clinton
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.