In Re Meckfessel’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2013
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
Relies on In Re Hahn · Jenkins v. McNall · In Re Oetinger · In Re Massoni
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is nothing in the exemption scheme which denies a tool of trade exemption for a wife who helps farm their mutual property for their mutual benefit.... and the fact that her husband may do more of the farm work, and that he takes care of the financial aspects of the business, does not preclude her from being a farmer, since she testified that she actually engages in farming activities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Zink
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.