In re Wells’s Empirical Analysis
105 F. 762 · 1900
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 1976
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 In re Camp · Bridgeford & Co. v. Adams · Friedman Bros. v. Sullivan · In re Woodruff · In re Sisler
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In other words, it is made as clear as anything can he that such exempted property constitutes no part of the assets in bankruptcy. The agreement of the bankrupt in any particular case to waive the right to the exemption makes no difference. He may owe other debts, in regard to which no such agreement has been made. But whether so or not it is not for the bankrupt court to inquire.' The exemption is created by the state law, and the assignee acquires no title to the exempt property. If the creditor has a claim against it, he may prosecute that claim in a court which has jurisdiction over the property, which the bankrupt court has not.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Mayer · In re Little
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.