Drake v. Root’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 1932
2 federal appellate · 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 Jeremian Van Rensselaer v. Philip Kearney · Vanzant v. Vanzant · Chiniquy v. Catholic Bishop of Chicago · Hadlock v. Hadlock
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.
““2950. Homestead Exemption of Two Thousand Dollars. “Section 1. Every householder in the state of Colorado, being the head of a family, shall be entitled to a homestead not exceeding in value of the sum of $2,000.00, exempt from execution and attachment, arising from any debt, contract or civil obligation, entered into or incurred after the first day of February, A. D. 1868: ” “2951. Marginal Entry — When Wife or Husband may Cause Same to be Made. “Section 2. To entitle any person to the benefit of this act, he shall cause the word ‘Homestead’ to be entered in the margin of his record title to the same, which marginal entry shall be signed by the owner making such entry and attested by the clerk and recorder' of the county in which the premises in question are situated, together with the date and time of day on which said marginal entry, is so made: Provided, that in case the husband is the owner of said homestead, the wife may cause such entry to be made and recorded, and the signature* of the said entry by the wife shall have the same effect as if entered by the husband,' the owner of the property. And, in case the wife is the owner of the homestead, and shall fail to make such homestead entry, the husband may cause the homestead /entry to be made, and the signature thereof by him shall have the same effect as if the entry had been made by the wife, the owner of the property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Edgington v. Taylor
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.