Pelkowski’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably T I Federal Credit Union v. DelBonis (1995), Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency v. Faish (1995)
14 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · Albernaz v. United States · Kokoszka v. Belford · Standefer v. United States · Angrist v. United States
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to a governmental unit, or a nonprofit institution of higher education for an educational loan.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) The discharge of a debt under section 727 ... of this title does not discharge an individual debtor from any debt — .... (8) for ... [a] loan guaranteed by a governmental unit ..., excepting such debt from discharge under this paragraph will impose an undue hardship on the debtor and the debtor’s dependents.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Section 523(a)(8) does not refer to a “student debtor” but applies to limit discharge of any “individual debtor” from “any debt” for a covered educational loan. In the absence of clearly expressed contrary legislative intent, the statutory language must be regarded as conclusive.”
3 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.