Smith v. Uzzell’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 1934
12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the absence of evidence to the contrary, it ought to be presumed, when a removal from a homestead is made, that it was made in good faith and with the consent of the wife.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bishop v. Williams“Her removal from the state is inconsistent with any right remaining to her former homestead, and effectually precludes her from afterwards asserting such right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.