Britton v. Price’s Empirical Analysis
950 F.2d 602 · 1991
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 193 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably St. Laurent v. Ambrose (1993), Goldberg Securities, Inc. v. Scarlata (1992)
47 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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
Relies on Grogan v. Garner · Local Loan Co. v. Hunt · Johnson v. Home State Bank · Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare v. Davenport · Houtman v. Mann
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 193 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) [that] the debtor made the representations; (2) that at the time he knew they were false; (3) that he made them with the intention and purpose of deceiving the creditor; (4) that the creditor relied on such representations; (5) that the creditor sustained the alleged loss and damage as the proximate result of the representations having been made.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We have held that an act is 'willful and malicious' when done intentionally and the act necessarily produces harm and is without just cause or excuse.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) A discharge under section 727 ... does not discharge an individual debtor from any debt— (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.”
5 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.