Eldridge v. Waugh’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 2010
1 federal appellate · 1 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. § 523 · 11 U.S.C. § 727 · 28 U.S.C. § 158
Relies on Barclays American/Business Credit, Inc. v. Long · Lakota Girl Scout Council, Inc. v. Havey Fund-Raising Management, Inc. · Deitchman v. Er Squibb & Sons Inc · Usa Inns of Eureka Springs Arkansas Inc Jones v. United Savings and Loan Association · First National Bank v. Julian
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“After the accident, Waugh used [Rising Fast Trucking's] assets to receive debt release for himself, to the detriment of the Eldridges.... [A]fter the accident Waugh engaged in an intentional course of conduct designed to insulate assets from the Eldridges.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Waugh v. Eldridge“an intentional pattern of activity by [Waugh] targeted at harming the financial interests of the Eldridges and other creditors and at improving the financial condition of the [Rising Fast Trucking] shareholders.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Waugh v. Eldridge“there were related party transactions that were not disclosed and because of the uncertainty of [Rising Fast Trucking's] financial future due to the potential lawsuits from the 1986 wreck.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Waugh v. Eldridge
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.