In Re Langley’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably Munoz v. Dembs (1985), In Re Higgins (1983)
4 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. § 341 · 11 U.S.C. § 522
Relies on Sweeney v. Pacific Finance Co. (In Re Sweeney) · Credithrift of America, Inc. v. Meyers (In Re Meyers) · General Finance Corp. of Colorado v. Ruppe (In Re Ruppe) · Coleman v. Lake Air Bank (In Re Coleman) · Seacord v. Commerce Bank of Blue Hills (In Re Seacord)
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“necessary to and used by the debtor to carry on his trade”
3 later decisions 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.