Hookway v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2003
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 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 Barber v. Babel · Gleason v. Spray · Philbrick v. Andrews · Whitworth v. McKee · Hook v. Richeson
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order to select a homestead the husband or other head of a family, or in case the husband has not made such selection, the wife must execute and acknowledge, in the same manner as a grant of real property is acknowledged, a declaration of homestead, and file the same for record.” Rem. Code, § 558.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re Burnham · Washburn v. Wilen““It would seem that the meaning of the present law as to the time and manner of selection of a homestead, and as to when and how a homestead right is created, is so clear as to make it certain that a homestead can only be selected by the execution and filing of a homestead declaration, and that the premises constitute a homestead only from and after the time the declaration is filed for record. The words of the statute ‘from and after the declaration is filed,’ mean that the homestead is brought into existence by the doing of the several statutory acts by the claimant, and that it exists and speaks from the date of the filing and not otherwise. The appellant acquired no homestead right by occupancy. There is nothing in the statute which remotely suggests that occupancy even-initiates the right.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Washburn v. Wilen““It may be remarked that there is no provision in the law for the abandonment of the homestead by a discontinuance of possession, but that the statute expressly provides that a declaration of abandonment is effectual only from the time it is filed in the office in which this homestead was recorded.””
1 later decision 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.