Johnson v. Miera’s Empirical Analysis
926 F.2d 741 · 1991
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 18 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 198 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Goldberg Securities, Inc. v. Scarlata (1992), Cochrane Tudor Oaks Limited Partnership v. Cochrane (1997)
17 federal appellate · 18 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. § 523
Relies on Grogan v. Garner · Tinker v. Colwell · Barclays American/Business Credit, Inc. v. Long · Huntington v. City of New York · Spilman v. Harley
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 198 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the issue sought to be precluded must be the same as that involved in the prior action; (2) the issue must have been litigated in the prior action; (3) the issue must have been determined by a valid and final judgment; and (4) the determination must have been essential to the prior judgment.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) a discharge under § 727 does not discharge an individual debtor from any debt: (i) for a tax; (b) with respect to which a return, if required— (i) was not filed; or ... (c) with respect to which the debtor made a fraudulent return or willfully attempted in any manner to evade or defeat such tax.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“1. The issue sought to be precluded must be the same issue as that involved in the prior action; 2. The issue must have been actually litigated; 3. The issue must have been determined by a valid and final judgment; and 4. The determination of the issue must have been essential to the final judgment.”
8 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.