Kathleen Poolman v. William F. Poolman, Bankrupt’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently July 2008 · most notably Williams v. Williams (1983), 2 Cal. 3d 752 - Martin v. Martin (1970)
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 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 Local Loan Co. v. Hunt · Wetmore v. Markoe · Horace Dunbar v. Lottie E Dunbar · Audubon v. Shufeldt · N. P. Severin Co. v. Young
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is safe to say that the obligation to maintain and support a family includes the obligation to keep a roof over their heads. It is obvious that that is what the bankrupt undertook to do when he agreed to keep up the installment payments on the trust deed upon the home in which his divorced wife and children were to live. That the obligation has become unduly burdensome cannot be considered in determining the legal effect of his discharge.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The approved practice at present * * * is to enter a general order of discharge and permit the bankrupt to plead his discharge as a defense in the state or other court where the creditor seeks to enforce his claim. The court having jurisdiction of the subject matter of the claim and of the parties is competent to determine whether the debt is affected by the discharge in bankruptcy or whether the claim is excluded under any of the provisions of [bankruptcy laws].”
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.