In Re Suarez’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 1144 · 11 U.S.C. § 522 · 11 U.S.C. § 541 · 26 U.S.C. § 408 (§ 2002 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 28 U.S.C. § 2403 · 29 U.S.C. § 1051 (§ 201 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell · MacKey v. Lanier Collection Agency & Service, Inc. · Guidry v. Sheet Metal Workers National Pension Fund · Lichstrahl v. Bankers Trust
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The historical purpose of () exemption laws has been to protect a debtor from his creditors, to provide him with the basic necessities of life so that even if his creditors levy on all of his nonexempt property, the debtor will not be left destitute and a public charge. (This) purpose has not changed....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Baker
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.