Carp v. E’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
19 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably In Re Michael Watson, Stevens v. Antonious (In Re Antonious) (2006)
19 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 727
Relies on Baxter v. Palmigiano · Field v. Mans · Gutierrez-Rodriguez v. Cartagena · Boroff v. Tully · Cumpiano v. Banco Santander Puerto Rico
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clear error unless the bankruptcy court's analysis was based on a mistaken view of the legal principles involved.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in a civil proceeding, the drawing of a negative inference is a permissible, but not an ineluctable, concomitant of a party's invocation of the Fifth Amendment. While the law does not forbid adverse inferences against civil litigants, it does not mandate such inferences.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Notwithstanding the fact that we are the second-in-time reviewers, we cede no special deference to the district court's determinations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Buscone v. Botelho · Woodman v. A C
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.