Bercier v. L Bercier’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Meyer v. Rigdon (1994), RecoverEdge L.P. v. Pentecost (1995)
2 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
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · 785 F.2d 1249 · Grossie v. Sam · Compton Sa Sanchez Ramos v. R Compton Sa · Keeling v. Roeder (In Re Roeder)
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the debtor made representations; (2) at the time they were made the debtor knew they were false; (3) the debtor made the representations with the intention and purpose to deceive the creditor; (4) that the creditor relied 17 on such representations; and (5) that the creditor sustained losses as a proximate result of the representations.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to be a false representation or false pretense under § 523(a)(2), the false representations and false pretenses must encompass statements that falsely purport to depict current or past facts”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(2)for money, property, services, or an extension, renewal, or refinancing of credit, to the extent obtained by— (A) false pretenses, a false representation, or actual fraud, other than a statement respecting the debtor’s or an insider’s financial condition;”
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.