Lewis v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
267 U.S. 467 · 1925
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 5 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1992 · most notably Perez. v. Campbell (1971), Kesler v. Department of Public Safety of Utah (1962)
18 federal appellate · 5 district · 9 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Wetmore v. Markoe · Schall v. Camors · Olson v. United States Spruce Production Corp. · In re New York Tunnel Co.
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 70 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 ... except such as ... (2) are liabilities for obtaining money or property by false pretenses or false representations, or for obtaining money or property on credit or obtaining an extension or renewal of credit in reliance upon a materially false statement in writing respecting his financial condition made or published or caused to be made or published in any manner whatsoever with intent to deceive, or for willful and malicious conversion of the property of another ... (4) were created by his fraud, embezzlement, misappropriation or defalcation while acting as an officer or in any fiduciary capacity ... (8) are liabilities for willful and malicious injuries to the person or property of another other than conversion as excepted under clause (2) of this subdivision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a. Debts ... may be proved ... which are founded upon (1) a fixed liability, as evidenced by a judgment ..., absolutely owing at the time of the filing of the petition ... (3) a claim for taxable costs incurred in good faith by a creditor before the filing of the petition in an action to recover a pro[v]able debt ... (5) provable debts reduced to judgments after the filing of the petition and before the consideration of the bankrupt’s application for a discharge ... (7) the right to recover damages in any action for negligence instituted prior to and pending at the time of the filing of the petition in bankruptcy; (8) contingent debts ...,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.