Griffin v. Ayers’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Mordecai v. Scott (1975), Phifer v. Miller (1951)
24 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 McGuire v. Van Pelt · Tyler v. Jewett · Fuller v. American Supply Co. · Lehman, Durr & Co. v. Bryan · Moseley v. Neville
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.
“A homestead, in law, means a home place, or place of the home, and is designed as a shelter of the homestead roof, and not as a mere investment in real estate, or the rents and profits derived therefrom.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The statute protects the roof that shelters and the land used in connection therewith for the comfort and sustenance of the family . . . ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lacey v. Davis
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.