In Re: Gi Nam’s Empirical Analysis
273 F.3d 281 · 2001
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably In Re Rfe Industries, Inc. (2002), Dobrek v. Phelan (2005)
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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
Relies on Grogan v. Garner · United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Kelly v. Robinson · Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare v. Davenport · Garcia v. United States
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) a discharge under section 727 ... of this title does not discharge an individual debtor from any debt- (7) to the extent such debt is for a fine, penalty, or forfeiture payable to and for the benefit of a governmental unit, and which is not compensation for actual pecuniary loss, other than a tax penalty”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is restricted in scope to exempt from dischargeability only obligations of a [purely] penal nature,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dobrek v. Phelan · Soileau v. H“[a]lthough the label that state law affixes to a certain type of debt cannot of itself be determinative of the debt's character for purposes of the federal dischargeability provisions, such state-law designations are at least helpful to courts in determining the generic nature of such debts. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dobrek v. Phelan · Dobrek v. Phelan
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.