Morgan v. Beuthein’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 1985
6 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 Morris v. Ward · Green v. Marks · Black v. Epperson · Fallihee v. Wittmayer
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The manifest object and purpose of the homestead law and its exemption from forced sale is to secure to the family of an improvident debtor a home, and to secure to such debtor and his family, not only the homestead, but the proceeds of the sale of such homestead, for reinvestment in another, as the business and circumstances of the debtor may require.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Pierce
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.