Caldwell v. Renfro’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1999
2 district · 2 state decisions
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 Stotesbury v. Kirtland · Wagner v. J. H. North Furniture & Carpet Co.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Exemption rights are purely of statutory origin, and exist only so far as thereby created. The statutes of exemption, being benevolent and humane in their character, have been given a liberal construction so as to give full effect to the intention of the legislature, but no such construction should be given as to evade the purpose of the statute, and the intention of the lawmakers in extending charity to the impecunious must also be just to the creditors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Shelby
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.