Bugna v. McArthur’s Empirical Analysis
33 F.3d 1054 · 1994
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably In Re Robert J. Young and Donna M. Young, Debtors. Fowler Brothers v. Robert J. Young and Donna M. Young (1996), George Jercich James Petralia v. George Jercich (2001)
15 federal appellate · 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 101 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005) · 11 U.S.C. § 523 · 28 U.S.C. § 1738
Relies on Grogan v. Garner · Allen v. McCurry · Kremer v. Chemical Construction Corp. · Pacific Mutual Life Insurance v. Haslip · Mississippi v. Turner
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“right to payment, whether or not such right is reduced to judgment ... .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n determining the collateral estoppel effect of a state court judgment, federal courts must, as a matter of full faith and credit, apply that state's law of collateral estoppel.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The [Bankruptcy] Code is designed to afford debtors a fresh start, and we interpret liberally its provisions favoring debtors.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Jerauld · Murray v. Bammer
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.