Moran v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 1991
15 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 People ex rel. Whitney v. Board of Delegates of San Francisco Fire Department · Kneettle v. . Newcomb · Stewart v. Stewart · Kable v. Mitchell · Phelps v. Phelps
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he sale of the homestead under a deed of trust, or under a decree of foreclosure of a mortgage thereon, is not a 'forced sale,' within the meaning of the Constitution, which exempts a homestead from 'forced sale'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“benefit of all exemption laws,” is ineffectual, and will not”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hatorff v. Wellford
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.