Comer v. Comer’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 155 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Pizza of Hawaii, Inc. v. Shakey's, Inc. (1985), Crocker National Bank v. American Mariner Industries, Inc. (1984)
37 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 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 · Houtman v. Mann · Bialac v. Bialac · McKesson Drug Co. v. Marcus
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 155 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Res judicata should not be applied to bar a claim by a party in bankruptcy proceedings, nor should a bankruptcy judge rely solely on state court judgments when determining the nature of a debt for purposes of dischargeability, if doing so would prohibit the bankruptcy court from exercising its exclusive jurisdiction to determine dischargeability.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“this court reviews the bankruptcy court's findings of fact by the clearly erroneous standard”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“extent of [the debtor's] obligation ..., not the nature of that debt,”
2 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.