Brixius v. Reimringer’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2010
1 federal appellate · 8 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 Clements v. Crawford County Bank · Linn County Bank v. Hopkins · Smith v. Dennett · Babcock v. Cobb · Phelps v. Northern Trust 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The essential thing to constitute a quantity of land within the homestead law is that it shall be occupied and cultivated as one piece or parcel of land, on some part of which is located the residence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“consist of two or more separate descriptions, or tracts, of land, provided the same are so situated that they may be occupied and cultivated as one body of land.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stenzel v. B
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.