Blocker v. Patch’s Empirical Analysis
526 F.3d 1176 · 2008
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Sells v. Porter (2008), Tso v. Nevarez (In Re Nevarez) (2009)
4 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 523
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Kawaauhau v. Geiger · Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Co. v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“deliberate or intentional injury, not merely a deliberate or intentional act that leads to injury.”
4 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 debt- or from any debt— (6) for willful and malicious injury by the debtor to another entity or to the property of another entity;”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f the debtor knows that the consequences are certain, or substantially certain to result from his conduct.”)(citing Geiger v. Kawaauhau (In re Geiger), 113 F.3d 848, 852 (8th Cir.1997)(en banc)(citing the Restatement (Second) of Torts § 8A, cmt. A (1965)), aff'd, 523 U.S. 57 , 118 S.Ct. 974 , 140 L.Ed.2d 90 (1998)). 2 . See Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S. 317, 323 , 106 S.Ct. 2548 , 91 L.Ed.2d 265 (1986). (”
2 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.