Gray v. Deal’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 1999
2 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 Morris v. Ward · Hansen v. Jones · Hoyt v. Howe · Neilson v. Alberty · Folsom v. Carli
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.
“.... The constitutional provision is that the homestead of the family “shall be and is hereby protected from forced sale, for the payment of debts,” etc. If the homestead is protected from forced sale, for the payment of debts, surely no judgment lien, whether dormant or not, can attach thereto. The word “protect” means to “insure or shield from danger, harm, damage, trespass, insult, temptation, or the like.” “Defend” is another definition. “To preserve in safety” is a further definition. If the homestead is “protected,” it is “preserved in safety” from judgment liens, and cannot be made subject to the payment thereof. It is admitted that the judgment lien cannot attach while the property is occupied and used as a homestead; that being true, it cannot attach when the property is sold, because it does not then belong to the judgment debtor. It follows from a liberal, if not a literal, construction of the homestead exemption that a lien cannot attach to the homestead at all.”
2 later decisions 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.