In Re Soika’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1996
1 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 Gleason v. Thaw · Lines v. Frederick · Hanlon v. MacFadden Publications, Inc. · In the Matter of Ben Melnick, Bankrupt
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`[T]he basic purpose of the Bankruptcy Act [is] to give the debtor a "new opportunity in life and a clear field for future effort, unhampered by the pressure and discouragement of pre-existing debt. . . ."'" Lines v. Frederick, 400 U.S. 18, 19 , 91 S.Ct. 113 , 27 L.Ed.2d 124 (1970); In re Busatt, No. 73-B-5 (E.D.N.Y. July 10, 1973); In re Fuhrman, No. BK-72-756 (W.D.N.Y. Nov. 2, 1972). Exceptions to discharge should be construed in favor of the bankrupt so far as reasonable. Gleason v. Thaw, 236 U.S. 558 , 35 S.Ct. 287 , 59 L.Ed. 717 (1915)," In re Soika, 365 F.Supp. 555, 556 (W.D.N.Y.1973).”
3 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.