In re Coffman’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 3 district ·

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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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““But in a ease of voluntary bankruptcy, where the bankrupt comes forward and tenders all of his property subject to execution, to be applied rat-ably on his debts, in order, that he may reap the benefits of the Bankruptcy Act, the question may well be asked: Does he not, by his act, extend an invitation and give warrant to the trustee to come upon his homestead and gather that which belongs to his creditors?””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Olmsted-Stevenson Co. v. Miller