Blackwell v. Dabney’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Engler v. Van Steinburg (1984), Schwalbe v. Gans (In Re Gans) (1987)
6 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 101 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005) · 11 U.S.C. § 523
Relies on In Re Kiernan · Jahanger v. Bedard (In Re Bedard) · Bialek's Medical Arts Clinical Reference Laboratory, Inc. v. Patch (In Re Patch)
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“false pretenses, a false representation, or actual fraud.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Oral misrepresentations or pretenses as to the financial condition of the debtor or an insider are expressly excluded from nondischargeability under subsection (A) in § 523(a)(2) because subsection (B) requires that such misrepresentations as to the debtor’s or an insider’s financial condition must result from the “use of a statement in writing.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“All of the statements made by Blackwell to the plaintiffs were essentially statements concerning the financial condition of Studio-1. Further, all of Blackwell’s statements were oral. The representations are therefore outside the scope of [Section 523(a)(2)] and can not be the basis for preventing discharge of the bankrupt. Johnson(sic), 702 F.2d at 492.”
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.