Laughlin v. Lumbert’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
4 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 2013
4 district · 17 state decisions
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 Paulos v. Janetakos · State v. Patten · Metzger v. Ellis · Terry v. Pipkin · McFadden v. Murray
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t seems to us that the result would be rather anomalous if upon an exemption being granted appellant in one case, the money determined to be exempt was held to be immediately subject to garnishment in another action. The money being exempt under the statute, it was not subject to garnishment or if successfully garnisheed could be claimed exempt____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“prevent families from becoming destitute as the result of misfortune through common debts which generally are unforeseen * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. D'Avignon v. Graham
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.