Purdy v. Grove’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2003 · most notably Bradley v. Pacific Southwest Bank (1992), In Re Starns (1985)
9 federal appellate · 6 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 Eyster v. Gaff · Parks v. West · Archibald v. Jacobs · Hargadene, McKittrick & Co. v. Whitfield · Parish Potter v. Hawes
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * The urban homestead provided by the Constitution of Texas contemplates a lot or lots used for the purposes specified in such Constitution located in one urban community, whether governed by one or more municipal bodies, and not a lot or lots situated in widely separated urban communities.” That statement is a significant one, and indicates that municipal boundary lines in such cases, like the corporate existence of a city, town, or village, are unimportant considerations in determining the location of or the right to claim the urban homestead, or a part thereof. * * * * * * Evidently, as used in this provision of the Constitution (section 51, art. 16), ‘a city, town, or village’ means ‘an aggregation of inhabitants and a collection of occupied dwellings and other buildings.’ State ex rel. Wilke v. Stein et al. (Tex. Com.App.) 26 S.W. (2d) 182, 184 . There would appear to be no legal obstacle to a family residence homestead being located in Dallas and a business homestead in connection therewith in Highland Park; the two adjoining municipalities being separated merely by a corporate line. The test would be, Are the parts of the one homestead located in one urban community ?” “We also cite in support and confirmation of the conclusions relating to the business homestead, Nunn on Exemptions, p. 125, an excellent text recently published. In discussing limitations, (a) to (h), under which property may be impressed with the homestead character, the author states: ‘ * * * (b) ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“are unimportant considerations in determining the location of or the right to claim the urban homestead ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cannady v. Wilson
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.