Camp v. Ingalls’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate ·

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “If the effect of the domiciliary requirement under subparagraph (A) is to render the debtor ineligible for any exemption, the debtor may elect to exempt property that is specified under subsection (d).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Fernandez · Shell

2. “any property that is exempt under ... State or local law that is applicable on the date of the filing of the petition to the place in which the debtor’s domicile has been located for the 730 days immediately preceding the date of the filing of the petition or if the debtor's domicile has not been located in a single State for such 730-day period, the place in which the debtor's domicile was located for 180 days immediately preceding the 730-day period or for a longer portion of such 180-day period than in any other place.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Brown v. Sommers

3. “must presume that a legislature says in a statute what it means and means in a statute what it says.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Thomas v. Bryant