Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2011
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 Ragsdale v. Haller · Olympic Sports Products, Inc. v. Universal Athletic Sales Co. · Jackson Water Works, Inc. v. Public Utilities Commission of State of California · In Re Jerome Thomas Lafond · MacDonald v. Mercill
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(f) [T]he 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 otherwise been entitled under subsection (b) of this section, if such lien is— * * * * * . * (2) a nonpossessory, nonpurchase-mon-ey security interest in any— * * # * at sfc (B) implements, professional books, or tools of the trade of the debtor_”
2 later decisions 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.