Coppler & Mannick, P.C. v. Wakeland’s Empirical Analysis

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23 state decisions

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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Each person shall have exempt a homestead in a dwelling house and land occupied by him or in a dwelling house occupied by him although the dwelling is on land owned by another, provided that the dwelling is owned, leased or being purchased by the person claiming the exemption. Such a person has a homestead of thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) exempt from attachment, execution or foreclosure by a judgment creditor and from any proceeding of receivers or trustees in insolvency proceedings and from executors or administrators in probate. If the homestead is owned jointly by two persons, each joint owner is entitled to an exemption of thirty thousand dollars ($30,000).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Grygorwicz v. Trujillo

2. “[t]he general equitable power of the district court cannot overcome the public policy established by the Legislature”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Chatterjee v. King

3. “It is a basic maxim that equity is ancillary, not antagonistic, to the law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Chatterjee v. King