In the Matter of Gerald A. Mascolo, Bankrupt’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 131 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Guardian Industrial Products, Inc. v. Diodati (In Re Diodati) (1981), Bank of India v. Sapru (In Re Sapru) (1991)
1 federal appellate · 8 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 Diorio v. Kreisler-Borg Construction Co. · Tabibian · In re Slocum · Metheany v. United States · Rakonick v. Hamilton Brown Shoe Co.
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 131 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“once it reasonably appears that the oath is false, the burden falls upon the bankrupt to come forward with evidence that he has not committed the offense charged.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Information omitted from a bankruptcy petition or schedule is material if it is 'pertinent to the discovery of assets, including the history of a bankrupt's financial transactions.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he successful functioning of the bankruptcy act hinges both upon the bankrupt's veracity and his willingness to make a full disclosure.”
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.