McLaren Atassi v. J McLaren’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Longo v. McLaren (1993), Brady v. McAllister (1996)
1 district · 1 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 · Wrenn v. McFadden · Lawson v. Credithrift of America · Hardin v. Caldwell · Phillips Coman v. H Phillips
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] plaintiff proceeding under section 523(a)(2)(A) must demonstrate that the debtor obtained money through a material misrepresentation that at the time the debtor knew was false or made with gross recklessness as to its truth. The creditor must also prove the debtor’s intent to deceive. Moreover, the creditor must prove that it reasonably relied on the false representation and that its reliance was the proximate cause of loss.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“A suit by a third party creditor ... against the debtor (and thus the bankruptcy estate) is a core proceeding under Sec. 157(b)(2)(B).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 157(b)(2)(B). As such, the bankruptcy court has jurisdiction to adjudge the validity and amount of a claim together with its dischargeability. In Atassi, this Court held that: 54 The district court properly affirmed the judgment of the bankruptcy court since the latter had determined the existence and validity of the debt due Atassi in a”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Longo v. McLaren
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.