Spence v. Spence’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
September 1992
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Texas Land & Loan Co. v. Blalock · Seaman v. Seaman · Cocke v. Conquest · Schulz v. L. E. Whitham & Co. · Youngblood v. Youngblood
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘... The homestead right, when fixed, is an estate in land, and a creditor has no right in it nor to it as a security. This exemption from forced sale of a homestead is founded upon public policy, and must be upheld and enforced, as it should be, and has been scarcely without an exception by the courts of this state, notwithstanding the fact that in doing so they sometimes directly assist a dishonest debtor in wrongfully defeating his creditor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ealy v. Ealy
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.