Doyle v. First Nat. Bank’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It seems to us clear that the plain language of .this third clause of section 14b requires that the written statement made by the bankrupt, for the purpose of obtaining credit, * * * should be knowingly and intentionally untrue, in order to constitute a bar to the discharge of the bankrupt. In other words, ‘false statement’ connotes a' guilty scienter on the part of the bankrupt. This primary and ordinary meaning of the word ‘false’ cannot be ignored. * * * Webster gives as its primary meaning: ‘Uttering falsehood’; ‘unveracious’; ‘given to deceit’; ‘dishonest.’ * * * To charge a person with making a false statement, is equivalent to charging him with uttering a falsehood, and imputes moral delinquency to the person so charged. * * * in Black’s Law Dictionary, under the title ‘False,’ it is said: ‘In law, this word means something more than untrue; it means something designedly untrue and deceitful, and implies an intention to perpetrate some treachery or fraud.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Parker Bros. & Johnson

2. ““It is well settled by the courts that the ground upon which he [the bankrupt] is denied his discharge is that the statement made is knowingly and intentionally false.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Parker Bros. & Johnson