In re Nye’s Empirical Analysis

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7 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions

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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.

1. ““The express terms of the bankruptcy act are such that it cloes not affect the allowance to bankrupts of' the exemptions which are prescribed by state laws, and does not invest the trustee with the title to properly which is exempt. * * * The provisions authorizing bankrupt courts to determine all claims of bankrupts to their exemptions, and directing trustees to set apart the bankrupt’s exemptions, * * * disclose no purpose to render tlie exemptions less beneficial than intended by the state laws, but are in harmony witli the purpose of the act, disclosed in other provisions, to make those laws the measure of the extent and nature of the exemptions, as well as of tlie right to them.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Youngstrom

2. “"[T]he several provisions of the statute are construed to mean that a homestead designated and occupied as such becomes and remains exempt until by a judicial sale, had at the instance of a creditor, more than the prescribed amount with costs is realized therefrom, when the excess is to be applied to the demand of the creditor, and the prescribed amount is to be paid to the debtor, free of charge or expense, to enable him to acquire another homestead."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 34 Colo. App. 363 - Baker v. Allen