Tapley v. Ogle’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 1994
13 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 Bank of Versailles v. Guthrey
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.
“Under our statute, when a homestead comes within its prescribed limits both as to quantity and value, as in the case at bar, it is absolutely exempt from attachment and sale under execution for the payment of debts contracted after its acquisition by the homesteader; and it is wholly unnecessary, as it is in many states, that he in such case should claim it as exempt, for the law so declares it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Karsznia v. Kelsey
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.