47 Cal. App. 2d 512 - Thomas v. Speck’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2010
15 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 Reid v. Englehart-Davidson Mercantile Co. · Lubbock v. McMann · Joost v. Craig · Sanders v. Russell · Blood v. Munn
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An order of a bankruptcy court adjudging that a bankrupt has a valid homestead on certain property does not bind creditors who by state law have a judgment lien on the property at the time of the adjudication of bankruptcy. Such creditors are not required to go into the bankruptcy court to contest the trustee’s report listing the property as a homestead in order to subject it to execution. On the other hand, a judgment creditor who is without a lien because the debtor’s property is subject to a valid homestead is bound by the bankruptcy court’s adjudication that the property is a homestead, not by virtue of the adjudication in bankruptcy itself, but by reason of his character as a creditor with a mere contract claim reduced to judgment. ’ ’”
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.