Bullock v. BankChampaign, N. A.’s Empirical Analysis
569 U.S. 267 · 2013
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 523
Relies on Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder · Local Loan Co. v. Hunt · Kawaauhau v. Geiger · Gleason v. Thaw · Babbitt v. Sweet Home Chapter, Communities for Great Ore.
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“several undisputed facts suggest that [Harris] was willfully blind to a substantial and unjustifiable risk that his conduct will turn out to violate a fiduciary duty, thereby qualif[ying] his conduct as defalcation under section 523(a)(4).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“not only conduct that the fiduciary knows is improper but also reckless conduct of the kind that the criminal law often treats as the equivalent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]here the conduct at issue does not involve bad faith, moral turpitude, or other immoral conduct, [defalcation] requires an intentional wrong.”
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.