Simonson v. Burr’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 1981 · most notably Yager v. Yager (1936), People v. Lapara (1919)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 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 Lubbock v. McMann · Fitzell v. Leaky · Southwick v. Davis · Heathman v. Holmes · Beaton v. Reid
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think the declaration involved in this case shows a substantial performance of all the acts required by the statute, and that it was sufficient to create and establish a valid homestead upon the premises described therein. The declarants were husband and wife, and the husband was therefore the ‘head of a family.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.