Sharp v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 1938
2 federal appellate · 11 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 West River Bank v. Gale · Whitsett v. Wamack · Palmer v. Alexander · Finnegan v. Prindeville · Snyder v. Elliott
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.
““The policy of the law is to secure housekeepers and head's of families homes which cannot be taken from them for debts contracted after the acquisition of the homestead. The acquisition of the land must be followed by its occupancy as a homestead by the claimant, and this occupancy, whenever it occurs, relates back to the time when the deed was filed for record.””
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.