In the Matter of Barry Woldman, Debtor-Appellee. Appeal of Geraldine Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably In Re Michael Frain, Debtor-Appellee (2000), Spinoso v. Heilman (In Re Heilman) (1999)
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
Relies on Davis v. Aetna Acceptance Co. · Irving Trust Company v. Bowditch · Meyer v. Rigdon · Marchiando State of Illinois Department of Lottery · LSP Investment Partnership v. Bennett
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]ection 523(a)(4) reaches only those fiduciary obligations in which there is substantial inequality in power or knowledge in favor of the debtor seeking the discharge and against the creditor resisting discharge!)]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“broad spectrum of fiduciary obligations from the case in which a trustee defrauds a child beneficiary or a lawyer defrauds a client or a general partner defrauds a limited partner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[O]nly a subset of fiduciary obligations is encompassed by the word 'fiduciary' in section 523(a)(4).”
1 later decision 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.