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Wright v. Whittick’s Empirical Analysis

1892

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
3
states following
February 2014
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 2014

2 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions

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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 Barnett v. Knight · Drake v. Root · Martin v. Bond

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.

  1. “[homestead] exemption statutes are to be liberally construed so as to promote the humane policy of such legislation; but the courts cannot, by construction, annex to such statutes consequences not fairly within their purview or intent”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “The homestead exemption act extends certain protection to the premises set apart by the owner as a homestead.... It protects [the premises] against proceedings by execution and attach-ment_ (emphasis added).”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “[t]he general assembly shall pass liberal homestead and exemption laws.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.