Connelly v. Michael’s Empirical Analysis
424 F.2d 387 · 1970
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2017
3 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
Relies on McAllister v. United States · In Re Disbarment of Isserman · Murphy v. Houma Well Service · Huth v. Southern Pacific Co. · Chaney v. City of Galveston
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is axiomatic that the party objecting to a bankrupt’s discharge has the burden to establish a reasonable basis for believing that the bankrupt has committed an act which would prevent a discharge in bankruptcy ... When the (objecting party) has met this burden, the burden of going forward with the evidence is upon the bankrupt to demonstrate that the bankrupt has not committed any of the alleged acts ... (or to) offer ... evidence to justify (the bankrupt’s) failure to (comply with the law or the court’s orders.)””
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.