Mallory v. Berry’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Under the ruling of the district court, a poor man, unable to purchase a yoke of oxen already broken and trained to work, who should purchase a couple of young, unbroken cattle, although’old enough to be worked, intending to break them himself and thus save the expense, could not hold them exempt; while his more prosperous neighbor, who can afford to pay the added cost of breaking, buys a yoke of cattle already broken, and holds them against his creditors. This does not seem like carrying out the spirit of the exemption law, which was intended for the benefit of the poor man, and should be construed as to secure protection to those most in need of it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Nelson v. Fightmaster

2. “-!It is well settled that exemption laws are to be liberally construed, though not of course that they should be .so construed as to exempt articles obviously outside of the legislative purposes.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Nelson v. Fightmaster