Lear v. Lear’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 1984
5 federal appellate · 6 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 Brandenburg v. Petroleum Exploration · Spratt v. Allen · Demarest v. Allen · Turner v. Brownings · Walker v. Walker
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The wife or husband of the owner of the homestead has no estate or vested interest in the property during the owner’s lifetime. The homestead exemption runs to the owner, and the right of a spouse is a derivative and not a direct one. Demarest v. Allen, 189 Ky. 32 , 224 S. W. 458 ; Summers v. Sprigg, 35 S. W. 1033 , 18 Ky. Law Rep. 206 . The homestead interest is not an estate, but merely an exemption from sale for the payment of debts, and after the death of the owner is a right of occupancy in the surviving spouse and infant children.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brannon v. Bohannon
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.