Hovermale v. Pigge’s Empirical Analysis
539 F.2d 369 · 1976
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2012 · most notably Houston v. Lack (1988), Brown III v. Felsen (1979)
20 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
Relies on Levin v. Singer · Greenfield v. Tuccillo · 336 F. Supp. 644 - National Homes Corporation v. Lester Industries, Inc. · Robinson v. Mountjoy
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Section 17(a)(2) of the Bankruptcy Act declares that the exclusive jurisdiction to determine whether a debt is dischargea-ble is vested in the Bankruptcy Court. And when that debt has been previously reduced to judgment in a state court, the Bankruptcy Court, in the exercise of its exclusive jurisdiction to determine dis-chargeability of the debt may, contrary to' the position of the bankrupt, look behind the judgment itself at the nature of the debt for which judgment was entered. In so doing, it is not confined to the record in the court in which the judgment was entered; it may, when necessary to ascertain the nature of the debt on which the judgment was entered, admit and consider extrinsic evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . . (W)here a judgment is involved and bankruptcy is pleaded as a bar to Plaintiff’s action on the judgment, the Court is not concluded (sic) by the form of the judgment, by the recitals of the judgment, by the form of the action, nor even by the allegations of Plaintiff’s complaint, but may resort to the entire record to determine the character of the claim and whether it comes within the purview of § 17. In determining the nature of Defendant’s original liability, the Court may . . . hear extrinsic evidence to aid in that determination.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“notice of appeal shall be filed with the referee within 10 days.”
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.