Archer et Ux v. Warner’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 22 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 285 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Husky International Electronics, Inc. v. Ritz (2016), DIRECTV, Inc. v. Robson (2005)
22 federal appellate · 22 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedArcher v. Warner (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 523
Relies on Grogan v. Garner · Butner v. United States · Montana v. United States · Brown III v. Felsen · Field v. Mans
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 285 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Brown sued Felsen in state court seeking money that (Brown said) Felsen had obtained through fraud; (2) the state court entered a consent decree embodying a stipulation providing that Felsen would pay Brown a certain amount; (3) neither the decree nor the stipulation indicated the payment was for fraud; (4) Felsen did not pay; (5) Felsen entered bankruptcy; and (6) Brown asked the Bankruptcy Court to look behind the decree and stipulation and to hold that the debt was nondischargeable because it was a debt for money obtained by fraud.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Congress [through the Bankruptcy Code] intended the fullest possible inquiry” to ensure that “all debts arising out of’ fraud are “excepted from discharge,” no matter their form. Congress also intended to allow the determination whether a debt arises out of fraud to take place in bankruptcy court, not to force it to occur earlier in state court when nondischargeability concerns “are not directly in issue and neither party has a full incentive to litigate them.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““The mere fact that a conscientious creditor has previously reduced his claim to judgment should not bar further inquiry into the true nature of the debt.” ... Congress [ ] intended to allow the relevant determination (whether a debt arises out of fraud) to take place in bankruptcy court, not to force it to occur earlier in state court at a time when nondischargeability concerns “are not directly in issue and neither party has a full incentive to litigate them.””
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.