Green v. Welsh’s Empirical Analysis
956 F.2d 30 · 1992
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 6 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Capital Communications Federal Credit Union v. Boodrow (1997), Donald Terwilliger Jr v. Donald L Terwilliger III and John Terwilliger
12 federal appellate · 6 district · 23 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Fernstrom Storage and Van Company International Business Machines v. Fernstrom Storage and Van Company · Owaski v. Jet Florida Systems, Inc. · White Motor Credit Citibank Na v. White Motor Corporation · Walker v. Wilde
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 114 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.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“'(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 ...[.]”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re Szenes · In re Eppolito“Together, the language of these sections reveals that Congress sought to free the debtor of his personal obligations while ensuring that no one else reaps a similar benefit.”
6 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.