Petty v. Dardar’s Empirical Analysis
620 F.2d 39 · 1980
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2007 · most notably Miller v. J.D. Abrams Inc. (1998), Seven Elves, Inc. v. Eskenazi (1983)
1 federal appellate · 1 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 Tripoli v. Gurry · Oakes v. H. Weil Baking Co. · In the Matter of David Lee Vickers, Bankrupt. David Lee Vickers v. Home Indemnity Company, Inc. · 92 So. 2d 482 - Landry v. Gilger Drilling Company
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An injury to an entity or property may be a malicious injury within this provision if it was wrongful and without just cause or excuse, even in the absence of personal hatred, spite, or ill-will. The word “willful” means a “deliberate or intentional,” act which necessarily leads to injury. Therefore, a wrongful act done intentionally, which produces harm and is without just cause or excuse, may constitute a willful and malicious injury. It is said that this category of liabilities excepted from discharge “contemplates something more restricted than malice in the broader sense,” and covers all cases in which the facts of intent and malice are judicially ascertained, irrespective of the character of the allegations made by the parties (footnotes omitted).”
5 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.