Rogers v. Doody’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
7 district · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably Mingachos v. CBS, Inc. (1985), Suarez v. Dickmont Plastics Corp. (1994)
7 district · 86 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
Relies on Tinker v. Colwell · Bordonaro v. Senk · Menzie v. Kalmonowitz · Sharkey v. Skilton · State v. Nussenholtz
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a discharge in bankruptcy shall release a bankrupt from all of his provable debts, except such as . . . (2) are liabilities for . . . wilful and malicious injuries to the person or property of another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A wilful and malicious injury is one inflicted intentionally without just cause or excuse. It does not necessarily involve the ill will or malevolence shown in expressed malice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.