Archer v. Tolleson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 state decisions

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Not mindful of those cases, appellant contends that the proceeding contravenes section 661, Title 7, Code. But section 661 does not apply to that situation in so far as the prohibition of a sale of the homestead is concerned. ■ Such prohibition as there contemplated relates to the homestead when not exceeding the area and value fixed by law, but not in the process of allotment to such widow when the homestead reduced to its lowest practicable area exceeds in value $2,000. For then the whole of it may be sold as authorized by Title 7, sections 685, 686 and 687, and thus contemplated by section 662, Title 7, Code. “There is nothing in our statutes which prohibits the operation of the rules to which we have referred and often enforced, as stated in Childs v. Julian, 241 Ala. 249 , 2 So.2d 453 , supra.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Beck v. Beck