Granger v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
754 F.2d 1490 · 1985
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Dominion Bank v. Nuckolls (1985), Talmadge v. Duck (1987)
8 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 522
Relies on Sullivan v. United States · Stover v. Rau · McManus v. Avco Financial Services of Louisiana, Inc. · Giles v. Credithrift of America, Inc. · Cheeseman v. Nachman
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“considerable freedom in creating exemptions and eligibility requirements for those exemptions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(m) Subject to the limitation in subsection (b), this section shall apply separately with respect to each debtor in a joint case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Nygard“Alabama laws that had an even less beneficial effect on debtors than the Virginia statute in Cheeseman”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.