Powell v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 1996
4 federal appellate · 2 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 Bowers v. Gardner · In Re Miller's Estate · O'Dell v. Sharp · Williams v. Watkins
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.
“did not distinguish it from any other farm land lying separate and apart from the home place of the ordinary land owner.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The gist of the requirement under the Constitution to impress a homestead is in the word 'selected.' The act of selecting is the constitutional condition.... The act of selecting ... is attended, with the manifestations of intention, as spoken declarations, ownership, possession, occupancy, use in connection with the home, etc....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“that circumstance alone is not sufficient to indicate an intention on the part of the owner to select the [leased property] as part of the homestead,”
2 later decisions 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.