Smith v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably Meadows v. Bierschwale (1974), Hall v. Commonwealth (1925)
41 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 Preston & Stetson v. McMillan · Chase v. Swayne · R. G. Atkinson & Co. v. W. A. & C. A. Ward · Shinn v. Macpherson · Miller v. Himebaugh
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Constitution (article 16, § 50) protects the homestead against forced sale for the payment of all debts except for purchase money, taxes and improvements, and provides that no lien on the homestead shall be valid except it be created for such character of debt, and provides that the lien to secure a debt for improvements must be created in a particular manner; otherwise it cannot exist. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.