Cunningham v. Steidman’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 1985
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 Gilmer v. O'Neal · Gibson v. Foster
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The plaintiff contends that the said provision of the Constitution taking away from the courts all authority to cause a homestead to be sold being a prohibitory law, and, whatever is done in violation of a prohibitory law being null and void, said sheriff's sale is null and void.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cloud v. Cloud
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.