Hull v. Rockwell’s Empirical Analysis
2020
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 1306 · 11 U.S.C. § 1307 · 11 U.S.C. § 1322 · 11 U.S.C. § 348 · 11 U.S.C. § 522 · 11 U.S.C. § 541
Relies on Grogan v. Garner · Local Loan Co. v. Hunt · Owen v. Owen · White v. Stump · Schwab v. Reilly
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen a debtor files for bankruptcy, [her] interests in property are either compiled into the bankruptcy 'estate' from which (to the extent the estate can afford) [her] creditors will be paid, or those interests are exempted from the estate for the debtor to keep.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Botelho v. Buscone“When the estate is created, a combination of federal and state law determines which of the debtor's assets are exempted (and will remain safe from creditor collection) and which belong to the estate (and will be lost to the debtor).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Botelho v. Buscone
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.