In Re Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2013 · most notably Taylor v. Freeland & Kronz (1992), Munoz v. Dembs (1985)
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 524
Relies on White v. Stump · Rhodes v. Stewart · Giles v. Credithrift of America, Inc. · Smith · Sight & Sound of Ohio, Inc. v. Wright
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would revert to the law of the streets, with bare possession constituting not nine, but ten, parts of the law; orderly administration of estates would be replaced by uncertainty and constant litigation if not outright anarchy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“we are unable to give the expected legal effect to statutory language which, standing alone, seems perfectly clear.”
1 later decision 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.