Smith v. Rumsey’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 1946
21 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law excludes the homestead from all remedies of •creditors in all courts, and the power of the creditor to take it against the will of the owner is absolutely subverted. There is no question left as to whether there is or should be a remedy somewhere to subject the homestead. The law has closed the door against all discussion about it.” Smith v. Rumsey, 33 Mich. 192 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Armitage v. Toll
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.