In Re Duss’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 2010
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 · 11 U.S.C. § 541
Relies on Long v. Bullard · Rosenman v. United States · Jones v. Liberty Glass Co. · In the Matter of Gerald Lewis Tarnow Appeal of Commodity Credit Corporation · Thorp Credit & Thrift Co. v. Pommerer (In Re Pommerer)
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Patterson decision stands for the single and narrow proposition that expensive farm tools and implements are not exempt as tools and implements under § 522(d) of the Bankruptcy Code and, therefore, the liens on such machinery cannot be avoided under § 522(f).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Thompson
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.