Beckmann v. Beckmann’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently September 2011
4 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 523
Relies on Brown III v. Felsen · Warner v. Warner (In Re Warner) · Williams v. Gurley (In Re Williams) · 20 Utah 2d 287 - Erickson v. Beardall · Kuzminski v. Peterman (In Re Peterman)
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 enforce the general purpose of the bankruptcy laws in providing relief for the debtor, the test announced in Holt v. Holt, supra , must be passed at the time the debt was imposed in the divorce decree and again at the time the discharge of the debt is attempted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kinsman v. Kinsman“if without the debt assumption, the spouse would be inadequately supported, the debt assumption was meant to be support.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kinsman v. Kinsman
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.