Brown v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““What this court has so often assorted as to make any further assertion unnecessary of it in the reports, is: That a mortgage or a deed of trust, or any attempted incumbrance on a homestead, other than those excepted in the Constitution, is void. Tho owner may abandon and sell the homestead the next day, and make good title. It is not a question of good faith, or of sound morals. It is a matter of state policy. Whilst the owner might sell his homestead, and thus realize its fair value, the Constitution meant, to protect him and his family from the insidióos temptation to incur debts upon it, in the sanguine expectation of being able to discharge them; but which would in many cases result in having the home taken for an insignificant sum. It was easy for a creditor to take notice of tho homestead, and he cannot complain if he finds that to be void in his hands, which the Constitution advised him would he so.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hill v. Hill

2. ““What this court has so often asserted as to make any further assertion of it unnecessary in the reports is that a mortgage or a deed of trust, or any attempted incumbrance on a homestead, other than those excepted'in the Constitution, is void.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hill v. Hill