Ganus v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently April 2005 · most notably 383 So. 2d 547 - Williams v. State (1979), 338 So. 2d 1243 - Duncan v. Johnson (1976)
33 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 Ex Parte Morrow · Compton v. Cook · Street v. Watts · Mizell v. Walley · Archer v. Tolleson
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . We think the intent of the Legislature was to provide the widow and the minor children, if any, with a life estate in the homestead without limit as to vahie, in the absence of devise by will, so long as there were no debts, or they were paid, and so long as the area did not exceed 160 acres. We think it clear that such a construction was intended by the Legislature, the exception being, as it has long been, that the husband, by will, could devise that part of his property over and above the homestead exemption as he pleased.” (Emphasis Supplied) ( 267 Ala. at 18 , 99 So.2d at 206 )”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.