Corley v. Delaney’s Empirical Analysis
97 F.3d 800 · 1996
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Miller v. J.D. Abrams Inc. (1998), Geiger v. Kawaauhau (1997)
9 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 Stafford v. Oklahoma · State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. S.S. · Strong v. United States · Hope v. Walker · 550 So. 2d 609 - Breland v. Schilling
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]ntent to injure may be established by a showing that the debtor intentionally took action that necessarily caused, or was substantially certain to cause, the injury.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for willfulness and malice to prevent discharge under § 523(a)(6), the debtor must have intended the actual injury that resulted”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Here, [the debtor] unquestionably acted intentionally when he loaded the shotgun, took it with him to the confrontation with [the creditor], and, with his finger on the trigger, twice tapped the barrel of the gun on the windshield of the car to get [the creditor’s] attention. In contrast, however, the firing of the gun was neither deliberate nor intentional; on the contrary, it was wholly unintentional, even though possibly not wholly unforeseeable.... [T]he injury was not “willful and malicious” on the part of [the debtor]: He neither intended the injury nor intentionally took action that was “substantially certain” to cause the injuries that [the debtor] suffered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Red v. Baum
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.