Watts v. Ellithorpe’s Empirical Analysis
135 F.2d 1 · 1943
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 1999 · most notably Kathleen Poolman v. William F. Poolman, Bankrupt (1961), Bartleman v. Humphrey (1969)
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 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 Pepper v. Litton · Local Loan Co. v. Hunt · Greenfield v. Tuccillo · Devereaux v. Belsey · Marshall Paper Co. v. Train
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 29 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, whether allowable in full or in part, except such as * * * (2) are liabilities for obtaining money or property by false pretenses or false representations * * *.”
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.