Nichols v. Overacker’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 1948
16 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 Magee v. Magee · Austin v. Underwood · Carr v. Caldwell · Barry v. Mackey
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.
““There is no homestead-exemption law as against obligations contracted for the purchase-money. As to such obligations, the rule is just the same as if no exemption law had ever been adopted, and land held as a homestead is, with respect to such obligations, governed by just the same rules as if it were not a homestead.””
2 later decisions 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.