Mertz v. Rott’s Empirical Analysis
955 F.2d 596 · 1992
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 29 114 75276 Yonikus Yonikus, Korte v. United States Internal Revenue Service (In Re Korte) (2001)
8 federal appellate · 6 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. § 522 · 11 U.S.C. § 541 · 11 U.S.C. § 727
Relies on United States v. Dion · Chalik v. Moorefield · Payne v. Wood · Williamson v. Fireman's Fund Insurance · Payne v. Wood
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(2) the debtor, with intent to hinder, delay, or defraud a creditor or an officer of the estate charged with custody of property under this title, has transferred, removed, destroyed, mutilated, or concealed, or has permitted to be transferred, removed, destroyed, mutilated, or concealed— (A) property of the debtor, within one year before the date of the filing of the petition; or (B) property of the estate, after the date of the filing of the petition; (4) the debtor knowingly and fraudulently, in or in connection with the case,— (A) made a false oath or account;”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The subject matter of a false oath is ‘material,’ and thus sufficient to bar discharge, if it bears a relationship to the bankrupt’s business transactions or estate, or concerns the discovery of assets, business dealings, or the existence and disposition of his property.”
7 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.