Whitson v. Middleton’s Empirical Analysis
898 F.2d 950 · 1990
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably Raynor Aaa Amis Transmissions Inc v. G Raynor, Stone v. Stone (In Re Stone) (1996)
3 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 Combs v. Richardson · Brooks v. City of Newport News · Bankr L Rep P 72370 in the Matter of Edward Joseph Pahule · Whitson v. Middleton (In Re Middleton)
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the debt in question arose from a judgment or consent decree entered in a court of record as a result of debtor’s operation of a motor vehicle; and (2) debtor operated said vehicle while legally intoxicated under the laws of the jurisdiction in which the vehicle was operated and within which liability was incurred.”
6 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.