Arruda v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
310 F.3d 13 · 2002
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 25 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States ex rel. Karvelas v. Melrose-Wakefield Hospital (2004), Educadores Puertorriqueos En Accin v. Hernndez
22 federal appellate · 25 district · 1 state decisions
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. § 522 · 11 U.S.C. § 554 · 11 U.S.C. § 722
Relies on Johnson v. Home State Bank · Farrey v. Sanderfoot · Aulson v. Blanchard · Chongris v. Board of Appeals of Andover · Rogan v. Menino
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“assume the truth of all well-pleaded facts and indulge all reasonable inferences therefrom that fit the plaintiff's stated theory of liability”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a bankruptcy discharge extinguishes only one mode of enfore-ing a claim-namely, an action against the debtor in personam-while leaving intact another-namely, an action against the debtor in rem.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“bald assertions, unsupportable conclusions, and opprobrious epithets”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.