In Re Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2019
3 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 522 · 28 U.S.C. § 157
Relies on Butner v. United States · Cocke v. Conquest · Autry v. Reasor · Franklin v. Coffee · George Wilder & Co. v. McConnell
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[M]ere ownership or possessory interest is not of itself sufficient to establish a homestead.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.