Gregg v. Rahm’s Empirical Analysis
641 F.2d 755 · 1981
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2007 · most notably Grogan v. Garner (1991), Barclays American/Business Credit, Inc. v. Long (1985)
20 federal appellate · 3 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 Tinker v. Colwell · Huntington v. City of New York · Basey v. United States · Houtman v. Mann
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that exceptions to dischargeability * * * be strictly construed [against the creditor and liberally construed in favor of the debtor] so as to effectuate the Congressional policy of permitting [a debtor] a fresh start.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jennen v. Hunter
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.