In re Haggerty’s Empirical Analysis
165 F.2d 977 · 1948
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2019
8 federal appellate · 1 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 Schapiro v. Tweedie Foot Wear Corp. · Third Nat. Bank v. Schatten · Morris Plan Industrial Bank v. Parker · Federal Provision Co. v. Ershowsky · In re Ernst
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The use of false financial statements as a bar to discharge was materially limited by the Act of July 12, 1960 (74 St. 408) which amended Bankr.Act. sec. 14(c) (3) ( 11 U.S.C. sec. 32 (c) (3). “As amended, the statute provides that a discharge will be denied the bankrupt if he has ‘while engaged in business as a sole proprietor, partnership, or as an executive of a corporation, obtained for such business money or property on credit or as an extension or renewal of credit by making or publishing or causing to be made or published in any manner whatsoever a materially false statement in writing respecting his financial condition or the financial condition of such partnership or corporation.’ The purpose of the amendment is to preclude the use of false financial statements as grounds for denial of discharges to nonbusiness bankrupts, and to permit their use only in the ease of business bankrupts.19a “Note 19a. Senate Report No. 1688: ‘The committee believes that complete denial of a discharge is. too severe a penalty in the case of the individual noncommercial bankrupt. It is also a penalty which experience has shown to be subject to abuse. An unscrupulous lender armed with a false financial statement has a powerful weapon with which to intimidate a debtor into entering into an agreement in which the creditor agrees not to oppose the discharge in return for the debtor’s agreement to pay the debt in full after discharge. * * * “ ‘Even where the creditor has had no part in the is”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Lepley
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