Housman v. Housman’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently February 1964
3 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 Habeck v. Habeck
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The court, in rendering a decree of divorce, may assign the homestead to the innocent party, either absolutely or for a limited period, according to the facts in the case and in consonance with the law relating to homesteads."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stearns v. Stearns“that the property be adjudicated directly to the children.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stearns v. Stearns
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.