Ashton v. Ingle’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 2009 · most notably Anderson v. Shannon (1937), Lubbock v. McMann (1889)
23 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 Gregg v. Bostwick · Ballston Spa Bank v. Marine Bank · Hubbell v. Canady · Hoitt v. Webb · Kelly v. Baker
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any other view than this would allow the owner of real estate in a city to own hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of property exempt from his just and legal debts. He could cover his acre of ground with costly buildings, rent a portion thereof to various families for residences, rent other portions for business purposes, other portions for manufacturing purposes, and still others for offices, and reserve merely one, two, three or four rooms for his own use as a residence, and then hold all these buildings, and the acre of ground, as exempt from his just debts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Re Teiten's Estate
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.