In Re Rule’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2017
2 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
Relies on Western Air Lines, Inc. v. California · Washington v. United States · Campbell v. American Foreign S. S. Corp. · United States v. Bransen · Campbell v. American Foreign Steamship Corp.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A motor vehicle may be a tool of the trade if it is necessary to and is used by the debtor to carry on his trade.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[E]xemption provisions ... should be liberally construed as they are remedial in nature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a [motor vehicle] might be a tool of the trade to a service station owner or operator,”
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.