Mays v. Mays’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2019
2 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 Strang v. Pray · Autry v. Reasor · Hargadene, McKittrick & Co. v. Whitfield · Wynne v. Hudson · Honaker v. Jones
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e doubt if the building and renting of tenant houses for the purpose of revenue for the support of the family can be said to be a calling or business, such as is contemplated in the Constitution. It seems clear to us that the renting of tenant houses is not the pursuit of a calling within the intent and meaning of the Constitution, nor do we believe that the building and renting of tenant houses for the purpose of deriving revenue with which to support the family is such a business as the Constitution contemplates in exempting a place for the calling or business.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Krug“The homestead, not in a town or city, shall consist of not more than two hundred acres of land, which may be in one or more parcels , with the improvements thereon ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Pool
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.