Snyder v. Devitt (In Re Devitt)’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Longo v. McLaren (1993), Hallahan Nis Corporation v. Hallahan
7 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 523
Relies on Beacon Theaters Inc v. C Westover · Granfinanciera, S.A. v. Nordberg · Dairy Queen, Inc. v. Wood · Ross v. Bernhard · Katchen v. Landy
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If it is acknowledged as beyond question that a complaint to determine dis- chargeability of a debt is exclusively within the equitable jurisdiction of the bankruptcy court, then it must follow that the bankruptcy court may also render a money judgment in an amount certain without the assistance of a jury. This is true not merely because equitable jurisdiction attaches to the entire cause of action but more importantly because it is impossible to separate the determination of dischargeability function from the function of fixing the amount of the nondischargeable debt.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Sasson v. Sokoloff · Deitz v. Ford
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.