Homan v. . Earle’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 1999
8 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““What the parties intended by these acts and declarations—what is the correct translation of them—is for the jury, and not the court. It is a question of fact, and not of law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Button v. Hibbard
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.