Howard v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 523 · 11 U.S.C. § 528 (§ 229 of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005)
Relies on Butler v. United States · Stewart v. Kutner · Shaver v. Shaver · In the Matter of Floyd Raymond Woods Appeal of Judith Jean Crabb Objecting · Maitlen v. Maitlen
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To determine whether an obligation to a former spouse is dischargeable in bankruptcy, the court must determine whether the dissolution decree intended the obligation to be maintenance for the spouse or to effect a division of property and debts.”
1 later decision 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.