Hill v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
260 U.S. 592 · 1923
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 12 district · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 310 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2017 · most notably Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs v. Greenwich Collieries (1994), Brown v. O'Keefe (1937)
62 federal appellate · 12 district · 92 state decisions — followed in 21 states
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 Central Vermont Railway Company v. Mary Theresa White L · McKelvey v. United States · George Kreitlein v. Charles Ferger · Smith v. Hill
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 310 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) A discharge in bankruptcy shall release a bankrupt from all of his provable debts, whether allowable in full or in part, except such as * * * (2) are liabilities for obtaining money or property by false pretenses or false representations * * * or (4) were created by his fraud, embezzlement, misappropriation or defalcation while acting as an officer or in any fiduciary capacity. * * *”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[J]ustice and the purpose of the section justify the technical rule that if the debtor would avoid the effect of his omission of a creditor's name from his schedules he must prove the facts upon which he relies.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“By the very form of the law the debtor is discharged subject to an exception, and one who would bring himself within the exception must offer evidence to do so.”
5 later decisions 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.