Greenberg v. Schools’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2002
3 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 523
Relies on 28 F. Supp. 415 - Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Flanagan · Firemen's Fund Insurance v. Covino (In Re Covino) · Landgraf v. Griffith · Greenberg v. Schools (In Re Schools)
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The interpretation urged by the appellee would allow a debtor to discharge a debt incurred by his own fraud by simply entering into a settlement agreement prior to declaring bankruptcy. The debtor could even accept a substantially adverse settlement with the knowledge that its terms and' conditions would be nullified by the subsequent petition in bankruptcy. Neither the statute, nor its legislative history, nor cases construing the reach of the statute, support this position.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] discharge under section 727, 1141, or 1328(b) of this title does not discharge an individual debtor from any debt— (4) for fraud or defalcation while acting in a fiduciary capacity, embezzlement, or larceny[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Greenberg v. Schools“settlement agreement extinguished a claim originally arising out of fraud,”
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.