Sellers v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions

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

1. ““We have not found In the statutes of Alabama or In the decisions of the Supreme Court of that state a definition of the phrase ‘wearing apparel,’ as it is used in this section. The only limitation which the section puts upon the meaning of the words is that the apparel shall be necessary and proper for the wearer or his family. This includes what is merely proper, as well as what is necessary. And, subject to this qualification alone, there is no limitation put on the quantity, quality, or value of the property which the words used describe. * * * The phrase ‘wearing apparel,’ as used in exemption laws, has its popular sense, and includes all the articles of dress generally worn by persons in the calling and condition of life and in the locality of the residence of the person claiming the exemption. It includes whatever is necessary to a decent appearance and to protection against exposure to the changes of weather, and also what is reasonably proper and customary in the way of ornament.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re H. L. Evans & Co.

2. ““The whole purview of the act is opposed to the thought that the fees' of the clerk, referee, and trustee are made, or in any event are td become, a charge on the personal earnings of the bankrupt accruing after he is adjudged to be a bankrupt, or a charge on the exempt property.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Mason