Evans v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 1996
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 Hixon v. George · Monroe v. May, Weil & Co. · Stowell v. Kerr · Tarrant v. Swain · Moore v. Reaves
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law has made the homestead free and independent of its owner’s debts and creditors, and in extending credit to his debtor the creditor need never take in consideration the homestead as an asset of his debtor, to which he can look for the satisfaction of the debt.... The law has placed the homestead beyond the reach of creditors and it would be anomalous to say that it would be fraud for the debtor to do the same thing, (citations omitted)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.