Elder v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2013
12 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 O'Donnell v. Segar · Wilcox v. . Hawley · Brusie v. Griffith · Megehe v. Draper · Moseley v. Anderson
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The privilege of the debtor to enjoy the necessary comforts of life shall be recognized by wholesome laws, exempting a reasonable amount of property from seizure or sale for payment of any debts ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Galvez“and [their] effect is to remove the property beyond the reach of legal process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Contrevo
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.