Stackhouse v. Hudson’s Empirical Analysis
859 F.2d 1418 · 1988
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Century 21 Balfour Real Estate v. Menna (1994), Towers v. United States (1995)
14 federal appellate · 1 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. § 109 · 11 U.S.C. § 523 · 11 U.S.C. § 727 · 28 U.S.C. § 157 · 28 U.S.C. § 158
Relies on Blum v. Stenson · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · United States v. Turkette · Cannon v. University of Chicago
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.
“(9) to any entity, to the extent that such debt arises from a judgment or consent decree entered in a court of record against the debtor wherein liability was incurred by such debtor as a result of the debtor’s operation of a motor vehicle while legally intoxicated ...”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Today there exists an unconscionable loophole in the bankruptcy statute which makes it possible for drunk drivers who have injured, killed, or caused property damage to others to escape civil liability for their actions by having their judgment debt discharged in Federal bankruptcy court. This loophole affords opportunities for scandalous abuse of judicial processes.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any injury resulting in a judgment based upon liability of the debtor where, in connection with such liability such debtor was found to have operated a motor vehicle while legally intoxicated shall be deemed to be a willful and malicious injury for purposes of subsection (a)(6) of this section.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.