Hyman v. Stern’s Empirical Analysis
43 F.2d 666 · 1930
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2010
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 In re Ansley Bros. · Rankin v. . Shaw · Whitmore-Ligon Co. v. Hyatt · Rose v. . Bryan
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While it is well-established law that exemptions in behalf of unfortunate debtors are to be liberally construed in furtherance of the object of such statutes, so also, must it be remembered that courts of bankruptcy proceed upon equitable principles and should ho more sustain a positive fraud than would a court of equity.” Id.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The statutes of exemption are made for honest debtors, not for those who wilfully and deliberately conceal for their own use and refuse to turn over to their trustee many times the amount exempted to them by the laws of their states.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Fox
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.