Barton v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1971
10 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 State v. Roberts · Shindler v. Givens · State ex rel. Sligo Iron Store Co. v. Mason · Payne v. Fraley · Tennent v. Pruitt
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The clause was designed to prevent such a construction of the homestead statute as would give the one the benefit of the exemption before he filed his deed for record. The homestead law was conceived for the relief of the honest unfortunate debtor and this clause was inserted to guard as far as possible from its abuse for a dishonest purpose. The statute means that the homestead is not acquired until the deed is filed for record, but it does not mean that it may be acquired before the land is occupied as a home.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Palmer v. Omer
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.