Perkins v. Scharffe’s Empirical Analysis
817 F.2d 392 · 1987
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 136 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2017 · most notably Kawaauhau v. Geiger (1998), In Re: Seymour Markowitz, Debtor. Seymour Markowitz v. Carolyn Campbell (1999)
10 federal appellate · 2 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. § 362 · 11 U.S.C. § 523
Relies on Tinker v. Colwell · Burnet v. Coronado Oil & Gas Co. · Delaware Co v. Converse · Huntington v. City of New York · Burnet v. Coronado Oil & Gas Co.
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 136 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An injury to an entity or property may be a malicious injury within this provision if it was wrongful and without just cause or excessive, even in the absence of personal hatred, spite, or ill-will.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage“(6) for willful and malicious injury by the debtor to another entity or to the property of another entity;”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage“The bankruptcy courts that have decided this matter have been divided as to whether the statute requires an intentional act that results in injury or an act with intent to cause injury.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.