Volpitta v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 6 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"[A] sale, gift or other disposition of property which is by law absolutely exempt from the payment of the owner's debts cannot be impeached by creditors as in fraud of their rights. Creditors have no right to complain of dealings with property which the law does not allow them to apply on their claims, even though such dealings are with a purpose to hinder, delay or defraud them."”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 409 So. 2d 157 - Dean v. Heimbach · 740 So. 2d 594 - Suntrust Bank/Miami, NA v. Papadopolous

2. “Although money judgments are statutory liens upon the real estate of the defendant in the county where such judgments are recorded, no judgment can be a lien upon homestead property if the property acquired homestead exempted status prior to the existence of the judgment lien.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 719 So. 2d 1264 - Prieto v. Eastern Nat. Bank