Brown v. Dellinger’s Empirical Analysis
734 F.2d 119 · 1984
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2017 · most notably Owen v. Owen (1991), Hall v. Finance One of Georgia Inc. (1985)
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 United States v. Security Industrial Bank · Segal v. Rochelle · Kalb v. Feuerstein · Kalb v. Feuerstein
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) all legal or equitable interests of the debtor in property as of the commencement of the case.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“impair an exemption to which the debtor would have been entitled”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Simonson · In Re Duvall“the overwhelming weight of authority holds that even if liens on the property exceed the market value of the property, leaving the debtor with no equity in it, the debtor nonetheless has an 'equitable interest' in the property”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re DeLiguori · In Re Simonson
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.