49 Wash. 2d 642 - Lien v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 96 Wash. 2d 568 - MacUmber v. Shafer (1981), Arkinson v. Gitts (In Re Gitts) (1990)
1 federal appellate · 17 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 Traders' National Bank v. Schorr · Snelling v. Butler · Kenyon v. Erskine · Becher v. Shaw · Security National Bank v. Mason
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Homestead and exemption statutes are favored in the law and should be liberally construed. 'They do not protect the rights of creditors. In fact, they are in derogation of such rights.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) The right to sell a homestead; (2) the exemption of the proceeds of a voluntary sale in good faith for the purpose of acquiring a new homestead; (3) the exemption of the new homestead acquired with such proceeds; and (4) the right, in these circumstances, to convey the homestead to a bona fide purchaser for a valuable consideration free of a judgment against the former owner of the homestead, are all so interwoven and dependent, one upon the other, that the first three rights are hollow and, for practical purposes, meaningless, unless the fourth exists. It is plain that the right to sell and substitute another homestead is a barren right, so far as the owner is concerned, if the first homestead cannot be conveyed to a bona fide purchaser for a valuable consideration, free of a judgment lien against the homesteader, in order to acquire the second — as Mr. Halverson did.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(1) Except as provided in RCW 6.13.080, the homestead is exempt from attachment and from execution or forced sale for the debts of the owner up to the amount specified in RCW 6.13.030. The proceeds of the voluntary sale of the homestead in good faith for the purpose of acquiring a new homestead, and proceeds from insurance covering destruction of homestead property held for use in restoring or replacing the homestead property, up to the amount specified in RCW 6.13.030, shall likewise be exempt for one year from receipt, and also such new homestead acquired with such proceeds.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Good
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.