Fierman v. Lazarus’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1991
2 federal appellate ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Henry Friend v. James Talcott · Levin v. Singer · Greenfield v. Tuccillo · Friend v. Talcott · Watts v. Ellithorpe
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . (W)here a judgment is involved and bankruptcy is pleaded as a bar to Plaintiff’s action on the judgment, the Court is not concluded (sic) by the form of the judgment, by the recitals of the judgment, by the form of the action, nor even by the allegations of Plaintiff’s complaint, but may resort to the entire record to determine the character of the claim and whether it comes within the purview of § 17. In determining the nature of Defendant’s original liability, the Court may . . . hear extrinsic evidence to aid in that determination.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““A discharge in bankruptcy shall release a bankrupt from all of his provable debts, whether allowable in full or in part, except such as . . . (8) are liabilities for willful and malicious injuries to the person or 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.