Devaney v. Dloogoff’s Empirical Analysis
600 F.2d 166 · 1979
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Angelle v. Reed (1980), Carlisle Cashway, Inc. v. Johnson (1982)
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
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 Davis v. Aetna Acceptance Co. · Irving Trust Company v. Bowditch · Jaffke v. Dunham · Romero v. Romero · Schlecht v. Thornton
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.
“In the § 523(a)(4) context, the fiduciary relationship must preexist 'the incident creating the contested debt and apart from it. It is not enough that the trust relationship spring from the act from which the debt arose.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a. A discharge in bankruptcy shall release a bankrupt from all of his provable debts, whether allowable in full or in part, except such as ... (4) were created by his fraud, embezzlement, misappropriation or defalcation while acting as an officer or in any fiduciary capacity; ...." The use of the phrase "fiduciary capacity” is continued in 11 U.S.C. 523(a)(4), The Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978.”
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.