Simank v. Alford’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 2005
4 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 Woods v. Alvarado State Bank · Cocke v. Conquest · Franklin v. Coffee · 28 Tex. Civ. App. 123 - Foley v. Holtkamp · Gardner v. Douglass
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.
“The homestead character of property can be established prior to actual occupancy when the owner intends to improve and occupy the premises as a homestead. Preparations for that purpose must be of such a character and have proceeded to such an extent as to manifest, beyond a reasonable doubt, the intention to complete the improvements and to reside upon the place as a home.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“are of such character and have proceeded to such an extent as to manifest beyond doubt the intention to complete the improvements and reside upon the place as a home.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“generally accepted rule that homestead laws are to be liberally construed to effectuate their beneficent purpose”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McDaniel v. Camp
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.