Rector v. Rotton’s Empirical Analysis
1874
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 1934
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The legislature never intended, by this statute, to assume a guardianship over the OAvner of a homestead, and render him disqualified to make valid contracts respecting it. It imposes no restraint upon him whatever in this respect. Even the Avife, when the title is in the husband, has no poAver to prevent him from making such disposition of it as he may think best.” Rector v. Rotton, 3 Neb. 171 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Perry v. Ritze
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.