In re Irvin’s Empirical Analysis
120 F. 733 · 1903
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1986
5 federal appellate · 2 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 Gainus v. Cannon · First Nat. Bank v. Glass · Klenk v. Knoble · Huenergardt v. John S. Brittain Dry Goods Co. · Backer v. Meyer
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The debtor is not required to occupy and use as a dwelling all ‘tlie improvements’ on the lot, for that would make it obligatory on him to occupy his barn and other outhouses for living purposes; and no- more is he required to occupy every room in Ms dwelling for domestic purposes. He may devote a part of his dwelling to business purposes. Our ancestors very generally carried on their business pursuits »in their dwelling houses. * * * ‘It is a strange and irrational idea, sometimes advanced, that a man ought to lose his homestead as soon as he attempts to make any part of it helpful in family expenses.’ * * * The premises In question having been impressed with the character of a homestead before the debtor was adjudged a bankrupt, his trustee in bankruptcy cannot rightfully claim the same as part of the bankrupt’s estate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Coles
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.