Tanner v. Tanner’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2001
19 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 Campbell v. Adair · McGrath v. Sinclair · Mounger v. Gandy · Hinds v. Morgan · King v. Sturges
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law does not exempt to every head of a household who lives in the country one hundred and sixty acres of land worth not more than three thousand dollars, but the statute exempts to the head of the household a homestead consisting of one hundred! and sixty acres of land worth not exceeding in value three thousand dollars. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nye v. Winborn
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.