McGowan v. Baldwin’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 1979
1 district · 13 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 In re the Estate of Gotzian · McCarthy v. Van Der Mey
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under the act of 1876, (Gen. St. 1878, c. 46, § 2,) the fee of the homestead is to be deemed a part of the assets of the testator, subject to the life-estate of the widow. It may therefore be applied to the payment of his debts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.