In Re Braddon’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably Stinson v. Williamson (1986), Galvan v. Galvan (In Re Galvan) (1990)
1 federal appellate · 1 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 Kokoszka v. Belford · Burlingham v. Crouse · Brown v. Dellinger · Simonson v. First Bank of Greater Pittston · Washington v. Virginia State Education Assistance Authority (In Re Washington)
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“11 U.S.C. § 522 (f) provides in pertinent part: Notwithstanding any waiver of exemptions, the debtor may avoid the fixing of a lien on an interest of the debtor in property to the extent that such lien impairs an exemption to which the debtor would have been entitled under subsection (b) of this section, if such lien is— (1) a judicial lien....”
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.