In Re DeVoe’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2007
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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 522 · 11 U.S.C. § 541
Relies on Segal v. Rochelle · Lockwood v. Exchange Bank · In the Matter of the Ad Service Engraving Company, Bankrupt. Nick A. Arabian v. Ralph H. Coleman, Trustee in Bankruptcy
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Paragraph (1) has the effect of overruling Lockwood v. Exchange Bank, 190 U.S. 294 , 23 S.Ct. 751 , 47 L.Ed. 1061 (1903), because it includes as property of the estate all property of the debtor, even that needed for a fresh start.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Donnell
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.