Cassidy v. Minihan’s Empirical Analysis
794 F.2d 340 · 1986
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably Hope v. Walker (1995), Conte v. Gautam (1994)
10 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 International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · Garcia v. United States · Tinker v. Colwell · Huntington v. City of New York
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(6) for willful and malicious injury by the debtor to another entity or to the property of another entity.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We believe that the report of the Committee on the Judiciary persuasively indicates congressional intent to allow discharge of liability for injuries unless the debtor intentionally inflicted an injury.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“means deliberate or intentional. To the extent that Tinker v. Colwell, 193 U.S. 473 [24 S.Ct. 505, 48 L.Ed. 754] (1902), held that a looser standard is intended, and to the extent that other cases have relied on Tinker to apply a”
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.