Jones v. Yoakam’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 1922
10 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.
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.
““As to the first objection to this mortgage we are of the opinion that it is not at all material when the debt was originally contracted, whether before or after the making of the final proof of settlement, etc. All that congress could have intended by this section [§ 4 of the homestead act] was, that the owner of such homestead should not be deprived of the land by virtue of legal process founded on a debt contracted before the patent has issued. It was not intended to do more than protect him against the compulsory payment of such a debt. Mark the language employed: ‘ISTo land . shall be liable,’ etc., that is, bound, or answerable, in law, or equity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weber v. Laidler
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.