Carlson v. Lilyerd’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2017
13 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
Relies on Betlach v. Wayzata Condominium · State of Missouri · Sauter Ex Rel. Benson v. Sauter · Nord v. Herreid · Holman v. All Nation Insurance Co.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... it is in the interests of the state to encourage and protect the family farm as a basic economic unit, to ensure it as the most socially desirable mode of agricultural production, and to enhance and promote the stability and well-being of rural society in Minnesota and the nuclear family.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(f) For purposes of this subdivision, if the immediately preceding former owner is a bankruptcy estate the debtor in the bankruptcy is the immediately preceding owner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“under the current statutory language “only a family farmer, family farm corporation, or family farm partnership could be an immediately preceding former owner.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lilyerd v. Carlson
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.