Boyd v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
741 F.2d 1112 · 1984
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2017 · most notably Farrey v. Sanderfoot (1991), Farrey v. Sanderfoot (1990)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 101 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005) · 11 U.S.C. § 522 · 11 U.S.C. § 523
Relies on McKenzie v. Irving Trust Co. · Waller v. Waller · Hulm First Federal Savings Loan Association of Bismarck Inc v. Hulm First Federal Savings & Loan Association of Bismarck Inc · Gau v. Hyland
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(f) Notwithstanding any waiver of exemptions, the debtor may avoid the fixing of a lien on an interest of the debtor in property to the extent that such lien impairs an exemption to which the debtor would have been entitled under section (b) of this section, if such lien is— ... a judicial lien....”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that property settlements should be treated the same as other debts in bankruptcy.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“that is all it was--pre-existing. [The non-debtor's] prior interest in the house was dissolved. In its place, the court gave him a debt ... enforceable by a lien on the house. What had been a property interest became simply collateral for a debt. Since the house was simultaneously vested solely in [the debtor spouse], the lien must have attached to her interest in the house, for no one else possessed any ownership interest in the house.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. In Re Stone · Farrey v. Sanderfoot
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.