Werner’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Geiger v. Kawaauhau (1997), Holliday v. Kline (1995)
6 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 Barclays American/Business Credit, Inc. v. Long · Belfry v. Cardozo · Rech v. Burgess (In Re Burgess) · Werner v. Hofmann (In Re Hofmann)
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(а) A discharge under section 727, 1141, 1228(a), 1228(b), or 1328(b) of this title does not discharge an individual debtor from any debt — • (2) for money, property, services, or an extension, renewal, or refinancing of credit, to the extent obtained by— (A) false pretenses, a false representation, or actual fraud, other than a statement respecting the debtor’s or an insider’s financial condition; (4) for fraud or defalcation while acting in a fiduciary capacity, embezzlement, or larceny; (б) for willful and malicious injury by the debtor to another entity or to the property of another entity[.]”
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.