Schexnailder v. Fontenot’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 48 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * '•*' * Schexnailder claimed his homestead and had the same set apart, it was excluded from the bankruptcy proceedings and the jurisdiction of that court as completely as if it had never been placed upon Ms schedules [citing authorities]. * * * ””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Bordelon · Alphonse Brenner Co. v. Owens

2. “In the larger sense, this language means that there must be a principal indebtedness or obligation to support the accessory stipulation or lien or the mortgage, but this does not mean that there shall be a personal liability. A mortgage, whether conventional or judicial, imposes a real right or obligation upon the property bound for its discharge. C. C. 2012 and 3282. There is nothing to prevent, and, in fact, it is'not uncommon for a mortgage to be given with the stipulation that the mortgagor shall not be personally bound beyond the value of the property so mortgaged. * * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Penn Athletic Club Bldg. v. Commissioner

3. ““(I)t would seem that it was the purpose of Congress, in enacting a national insolvency law, to preserve, rather than destroy, any of the rights or advantages enjoyed by creditors under the laws of the states, save to the extent that they are repugnant to or inconsistent with the specific provisions of the act which it thus passed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cotton Belt Insurance v. Arnold