Caudle v. . Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 1959
6 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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As contended by the learned counsel for plaintiffs, there is no such claim or plea of homestead set up in the answer of either Bryant Smith or Mollie Morris. It has been uniformly held by the Court that in an action to recover land, if the defendant desires to claim a homestead therein he should assert his rights by proper averment in the answer. Wilson v. Taylor , 98 N.C. 276 . In the opinion the Court says: `No issue in regard to the homestead was raised by the pleadings, and there was no question in relation thereto, as appears from the record, till after the verdict. The issues are raised by the pleadings,' citing Hinson v. Adrian , 92 N.C. 121 . The Court further says: `In all cases cited by counsel for the defendants, the claim to the homestead was presented by the pleadings.' This case has been cited and approved in a number of cases given in the annotation edition of our reports, and is directly in point and determinative of this appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pence v. . Price
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.