Field v. Mans’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
257 federal appellate · 175 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,324 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Neder v. United States (1999), Lindh v. Murphy (1997)
257 federal appellate · 175 district · 55 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedGonzalez et al. v. Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority et al. (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 523 · 11 U.S.C. § 727
Relies on Russello v. United States · United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. · Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Darden · Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Reid
Cited together with Grogan v. Garner · Kawaauhau v. Geiger · Cohen v. De La Cruz · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.
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 3,324 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the plaintiffs reliance on the misrepresentation must be justifiable ... this does not mean that his conduct must conform to the standard of the reasonable man. Justification is a matter of the qualities and characteristics of the particular plaintiff, and the circumstances of the particular case, rather than of the application of a community standard of conduct to all cases.”
116 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) 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; (B) use of a statement in writing— (i) that is materially false; (ii) respecting the debtor’s or an insider’s financial condition; (iii) on which the creditor to whom the debtor is liable for such money, property, services, or credit reasonably relied; and (iv)that the debtor caused to be made or published with intent to deceive; ....”
55 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Bero · Bandi v. Becnel“false pretenses, a false representation, or actual fraud,”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.