Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 1993
1 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 · Texas v. New Mexico · Benjamin Margolis and William McK Shongut, Claimants-Appellants v. Nazareth Fair Grounds & Farmers Market, Inc., Debtor-Appellee · Kathleen Poolman v. William F. Poolman, Bankrupt · Seaboard Small Loan Corp. v. Ottinger
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Since the Bankruptcy Act is specific as to non-dischargeable debts, it was permissible, even necessary in the circumstances, for the Bankruptcy Court to inquire into the nature of the liability -which had been reduced to judgment in order to determine whether it falls within the Act, and further to inquire into the circumstances surrounding the creation of the debt or the entry of the judgment. Poolman v. Poolman [ 289 F.2d 332 (8th Cir. 1961)]; Personal Industrial Loan Corporation v. Forgay [ 240 F.2d 18 (10th Cir. 1956)]; State Finance Company v. Morrow [ 216 F.2d 676 (10th Cir. 1954)]; Margolis v. Nazareth Fairgrounds [ 249 F.2d 221 (2nd Cir. 1957)]; White v. Public Loan Corporation [ 247 F.2d 601 (8th Cir. 1957)].””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““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 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, ...””
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.