Butt v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
4 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 2001
4 district · 7 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 Baldwin v. Thomas
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.
“No one can acquire a homestead unless he is at the time a married man or the head of a family. But if, while a married man or head of a family, he acquires a homestead, he does not lose his right to claim it as exempt because his wife dies or because he is divorced, even though he may have no family living with him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the right of homestead continues in the former head of the family, provided he still resides at his old home.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Thompson
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.