Johnson v. Zimmer’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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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.

1. “debt incurred by an individual primarily for a personal, family, or household purpose”) (emphasis added); id. § 522(d)(3) (allowing a debtor to take an exemption for “household furnishings, household goods, wearing apparel, appliances, books, animals, crops, or musical instruments, that are held primarily for the personal, a family, or household use of the debtor or a dependent of the debtor.”) (emphasis added); id. § 707(b)(2)(A)(ii)(II) (allowing”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Skiles

2. “Moreover, while the use of “household” as opposed to “family” or “dependents” in (terms used elsewhere in § 1325(b)(2)) would indicate that the term means something different from those words, that does not automatically indicate that Congress intended for the term “household” to be synonymous with the Census Bureau’s definition and refer to any person living in a particular residence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Brown