Belle v. Chase’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 2002
5 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 177 So. 2d 624 - Talley v. Bradley · 383 So. 2d 1337 - Mathieu v. Nettles · Holt v. Flournoy · 365 So. 2d 17 - Oubre v. Hinchman · Texhoma Contractors v. SHIPBLDG. 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The following income or property of a debtor is exempt from seizure under any writ, mandate, or process whatsoever: . . . . (2) That property necessary to the exercise of a trade, calling, or profession by which he earns his livelihood, which shall be limited to the following: (a) Tools. (b) Instruments. . . . . L.S.A.-R.S. 13:3881 A. The lessor has, for the payment of his rent, and other obligations of the lease, a right of pledge on the movable effects of the lessee, which are found on the property leased. . . . . But the lessee shall be entitled to retain, out of the property subjected by law to the lessor's privilege ... the tools and instruments necessary for the exercise of the trade or profession by which he gains his living and that of his family.... L.S.A.-C.C. art. 2705. The test of whether an object qualifies as a tool of (sic) instrument of the trade or profession is whether or not the tool or instrument is necessary for the exercise of the trade or profession, that is, whether or not the debtor will be prevented from exercising his trade or profession if he is deprived of the tool or instrument. We believe the latter question turns upon the former, and that the debtor cannot be deprived of the tools or instruments if the profession or trade cannot be practiced without them without severe hardship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This determination is one of fact with the outcome depending on the particular facts of each case.”
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.