In the Matter of James Michael Zarzynski and Kathryn Kleist Zarzynskis’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Goldberg Securities, Inc. v. Scarlata (1992), Banner Oil Co. v. Bryson (In Re Bryson) (1995)
9 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
Relies on Jones v. United States · Zwick v. Freeman · In Re Button · United States v. Cox (In Re Cox)
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) A discharge under section 727 ... of this title does not discharge an individual debtor from any debt— (2) for money, property, services, or an extension, renewal, or refinancing of credit, to the extent obtained by— (A) false pretenses, a false representation, or actual fraud, other than a statement respecting the debtor’s or an insider’s financial condition.”
39 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[t]he costs can be viewed as part of the penalty ...,”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“exceptions to discharge are to be construed strictly against a creditor and liberally in favor of the debtor.”
4 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.