Scott v. E W R’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 151 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably In Re Michael Frain, Debtor-Appellee (2000), Clean Cut Tree Service, Inc. v. Costello (In Re Costello) (2003)
8 district · 1 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 1107 · 11 U.S.C. § 727
Relies on Grogan v. Garner · MacKey v. Lanier Collection Agency & Service, Inc. · Matter of Beaubouef · In re Underhill · Farouki v. Emirates Bank International, Ltd.
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 151 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(2) with intent to hinder, delay or defraud a creditor or an officer of the estate charged with custody of property under this title, has transferred, removed, destroyed, mutilated, or concealed, or has permitted to be transferred, removed, destroyed, mutilated, or concealed— (A) property of the debtor, within one year before the date of the filing of the petition...”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the debtor has concealed, destroyed, mutilated, falsified, or failed to keep or preserve any recorded information, including books, documents, records, and papers, from which the debtor’s financial condition or business transactions might be ascertained, unless such act or failure to act was justified under all of the circumstances of the case.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“creditors have an expectation of greater and better record keeping.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Caneva · In Re Caneva
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.