Ames v. Eldred’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 1965
5 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Ashley v. Olmstead
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The only question in this case is as to the sufficiency of the declaration of homestead. Referring to the valuation of the premises, the declaration states ‘that the actual cash value is $5,000 and over.’ Section 1263 Civil Code provides that the declaration must contain an estimate of the actual cash value. “To say that a piece of property is of the value of $5,000 and over, is not to give an estimate of the actual cash value: it is not to say whether the property is worth $5,000 or $50,000. (Ashley v. Olmstead, 54 Cal. 616 .)””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Morse
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.