Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare v. Johnson-Allen’s Empirical Analysis
871 F.2d 421 · 1989
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2020 · most notably Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare v. Davenport (1990), Rashid v. Powel (2000)
5 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 101 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005) · 11 U.S.C. § 1301 · 11 U.S.C. § 1322 · 11 U.S.C. § 1328 · 11 U.S.C. § 362 · 11 U.S.C. § 523 · 28 U.S.C. § 158
Relies on Younger v. Harris · United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · Kelly v. Robinson
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) As soon as practicable after completion by the debtor of all payments under the plan, unless the court approves a written waiver of discharge executed by the debtor after the order for relief under this chapter, the court shall grant the debtor a discharge of all debts provided for by the plan or disallowed under section 502 of this title except any debt — (2) of the kind specified in paragraph (5), (8), or (9) of section 523(a) of this title....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“serious doubts whether Congress intended to make criminal penalties 'debts'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“(and that such debts were dischargeable in Chapter 13). In re Johnson-Allen, 871 F.2d 421, 424-428 (3rd Cir.1989) (collecting cases) cert. granted sub. nom. Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Welfare v. Davenport, — U.S. -, 110 S.Ct. 49 , 107 L.Ed.2d 18 (1989). See also In re Robinson, 776 F.2d 30 (2nd Cir.1985) rev'd on other grounds sub nom. Kelly v. Robinson, 479 U.S. 36 , 107 S.Ct. 353 , 93 L.Ed.2d 216 (1986). The Third Circuit observed that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Amigoni
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.