Wright v. Whittick’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
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
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.
“[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 majoritye.g. Shigo, LLC v. Hocker“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“[t]he general assembly shall pass liberal homestead and exemption laws.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pruitt v. Wilson
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.