Gilmore v. Dennison’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2005 · most notably Cheswick v. Freeman (1956), Kendall Builders, Inc. v. Chesson (2004)
22 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 Lasseter v. Blackwell
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * the rule has been established that in order to impress upon property a homestead character, in the absence of actual occupancy thereof, there must be an intention by the head of the family to reside upon it with his family as a home, coupled with some overt act of preparation evidencing a that intention. Mere intention alone is not sufficient.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stevenson v. Wilson
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.