Maher v. Goff’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 1976
2 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 Hartwell v. McDonald · Hartman v. Schultz · Atherton v. Hughes · Lynn v. Sentel · Sheahan v. Madigan
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When Goff deserted bis wife, she succeeded to the homestead estate as the head of the family, as provided by section 2 of the Exemption Act. (Citations.) Section 5 of the Exemption Act authorized the court to dispose of the homestead estate according to the equities of the case. Where a wife obtains a divorce and the custody Of the children, she becomes the head of a family and the homestead right passes to her. Bonnell v. Smith, 53 Ill. 375 .””
1 later decision 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.