Kelt v. Quezada’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently November 2005 · most notably Cecchini Impulsora Del Territorio Sur Sa v. Cecchini Robustelli Impulsora Del Territorio Sur Sa (1986), Hope v. Walker (1995)
7 federal appellate ·
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 Tinker v. Colwell · Delaware Co v. Converse · Huntington v. City of New York · Rines v. Harris (In Re Rines)
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“means deliberate, a deliberate and intentional act which necessarily leads to injury”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“conduct designed to cause deliberate or intentional injury”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under this paragraph, 'willful' means deliberate or intentional.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Joseph John Cecchini, Debtor. Impulsora Del Territorio Sur, S.A., Dba Hotel Solmar v. Joseph John Cecchini, in Re Peter Robustelli, Debtor. Impulsora Del Territorio Sur, S.A., Dba Hotel Solmar v. Peter Robustelli · In Re Joseph John Cecchini, Debtor. Impulsora Del Territorio Sur, S.A., Dba Hotel Solmar v. Joseph John Cecchini, in Re Peter Robustelli, Debtor. Impulsora Del Territorio Sur, S.A., Dba Hotel Solmar v. Peter Robustelli
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.