Walker v. Wilde’s Empirical Analysis
927 F.2d 1138 · 1991
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 12 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Fernstrom Storage and Van Company International Business Machines v. Fernstrom Storage and Van Company (1991), Green v. Welsh (1992)
15 federal appellate · 12 district · 10 state decisions
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. § 362 · 11 U.S.C. § 523 · 11 U.S.C. § 524 · 11 U.S.C. § 525
Relies on Reliable Electric Co. v. Olson Construction Co. · Posta Cit Financial Services Inc v. Posta · Western Real Estate Fund Inc Landsing Diversified Properties-II v. First National Bank and Trust Company of Tulsa · Owaski v. Jet Florida Systems, Inc. · Lompa v. Price
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“discharge of a debt of the debtor does not affect the liability of any other entity on, or the property of any other entity for, such debt.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) A discharge in a case under this title— [[Image here]] (2) operates as an injunction against the commencement or continuation of an action, the employment of process, or an act, to collect, recover or offset any such debt as a personal liability of the debtor, whether or not discharge of such debt is waived.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Robben · In re Hafen“Except as provided in subsection (a)(3)(B) of this section, the debtor shall be discharged from a debt of kind specified in paragraph (2), (4), (6), or (15) of subsection (a) of this section, unless, on request of the creditor to whom such debt is owed, and after a notice and hearing, the court determines such debt to be excepted from discharge under paragraph (2), (4), (6), or (15), as the case may be, of subsection (a) of this section.”
1 later decision 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.