Kirby v. Sprouls’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1671 · 15 U.S.C. § 1673 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Armstrong v. Manzo · Sniadach v. Family Finance Corp. of Bay View · Griffin v. Griffin
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since the debtor has a significant interest in protecting exempt property from seizure, clearly, the debtor is entitled to procedural safeguards that do not adversely affect the creditor's adjudicated rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dorwart v. Caraway
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.