11 1024 70155 Thompson Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Liming Central National Bank and Trust Company of Enid Oklahoma v. Liming, In the Matter of Ronald and Marjorie Pattersons Appeal of Abbotsford State Bank
8 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 · Sweeney v. Pacific Finance Co. (In Re Sweeney) · Credithrift of America, Inc. v. Meyers (In Re Meyers) · Gifford Thorp Finance Corporation · In Re Wright
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 66 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 subsection (b) of this section, if such lien is— ... (2) a nonpossessory, nonpurchase-money security interest in any— (B) implements, professional books, or tools, of the trade of the debtor or the trade of a dependent of the debtor....”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re Fuller · In re Graham“(2) a nonpossessory, nonpurchase-mon-ey security interest in any— (A) household furnishings, household goods, wearing apparel, appliances, books, animals, crops, musical instruments, or jewelry that are held primarily for the personal, family, or household use of the debtor or a dependent of the debtor; (B) implements, professional books, or tools, of the trade of the debtor or the trade of a dependent of the debtor; or (C) professionally prescribed health aids for the debtor or a dependent of the debtor.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“In conclusion, we hold that only those personal goods necessary to the debtor's new beginning and of little resale value fit the federal bankruptcy philosophy embodied in section 522(f)(2). We concur with the bankruptcy judge that the Thompsons' pigs were not the sort of low value personal goods in which 'adhesion contract' security interests are taken.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.