Lyons v. Andry’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2014
13 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 Maxwell v. Roach
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““How long an absence will forfeit the right depends upon circumstances. If a man, for example, should lock up his homestead, or even rent it, and go to Europe on a tour of pleasure, or for any other temporary absence, clearly intending to return and resume possession of the homestead, it seems clear that even five years absence would not, certainly as respects general creditors, work a forfeiture of the homestead rights.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is very generally recognized that, after a party claiming the homestead has actually ‘resided’ upon the property with his family, the fact of a change of the residence to some other place does not of itself per se cause a forfeiture of the homestead right, though that fact may be evidence of an intention to abandon, which, when coupled with others, may establish it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.