Jones Trustee Etc. v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 4 district · 194 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 294 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably VRG Corp. v. GKN Realty Corp. (1994), Fulp v. Fulp (1965)
12 federal appellate · 4 district · 194 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Milton v. Milton · Capen v. Garrison · 54 Tex. Civ. App. 43 - Vivion v. Nicholson · Garrison v. . Vermont Mills · Lewton v. Hower
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 294 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellee in other words takes the position that as president of the Jacksonville Bread Company ... he can then fraudulently or surreptitiously extract from its assets the sum of $535.84 in cash and use the same to improve his home thereby contributing to the bankruptcy of the Bread Company to the detriment of innocent creditors and then claim immunity from re-paying the funds or assets so taken by virtue of his homestead exemption. Purely from a standpoint of commercial or business ethics it would be difficult to state a set of facts constituting more reprehensible conduct, and while this court has repeatedly held that organic and statutory provisions relating to homestead exemptions should be liberally construed in the interest of the family home, they should not be applied so as to make them an instrument of fraud or imposition upon creditors.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Appellant [Jones], who steps into the shoes of the Bread Company, cannot follow said funds or materials into Carpenter’s home and recover them, they having been so converted, but he can subject the home to the repayment or restoration of said funds.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[B]ut the doctrine of equitable liens would never have come into existence if it were true that one who claims such a lien must first show a lien at law. Equitable liens become necessary on account of the absence of similar remedies at law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.