Hartman v. Utley’s Empirical Analysis
335 F.2d 558 · 1964
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 1998
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Williams v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Security Mortgage Co. v. Powers · Arenson v. National Automobile & Casualty Insurance · 7 Cal. App. 2d 733 - Pneucrete Corp. v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · 113 Cal. App. 2d 705 - Lewis & Queen v. S. Edmondson & Sons
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to relieve the honest debtor from the weight of oppressive indebtedness and permit him to start afresh free from the obligations and responsibilities consequent upon business misfortunes.”
2 later decisions 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.