In Re Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2016
1 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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
Relies on Butner v. United States · In Re Ford · Greenblatt v. Ford · West River Bank v. Gale · D'Avignon v. Palmisano
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an equitable solution of the existing problem”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It would, indeed, be an unwarranted expansion of the real meaning of the [homestead] statute to have rents encompass money received from the use of another building on land adjoining the homestead premises which is not used as a dwelling by the debtor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Rommer“[A homestead] signifies the dwelling house in which the family resides, with the usual and customary appurtenances, including outbuildings that are necessary or convenient for family use, and lands that are devoted to the same purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Rommer
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.