Van Meter v. Field’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2010
8 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 Pettis v. Johnston · Mercer v. McKeel · Davis v. Morgan · Lehman v. Tucker · Rives v. Stanford
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Homestead interest is a creature of the Constitution and Statutes and is vested jointly in the husband and wife for the benefit of themselves and family without regard to which spouse has title to the property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Keel v. Jones“[n]aked possession without any title or interest whatsoever may, under some circumstances, be sufficient as against all the world except the true owners and those claiming under them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Casey v. Casey
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.