Brooks v. Chatham’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 26 state decisions

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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The constitution expressly provides that the rural homestead may consist of one or more parcels, and the fact that they may be distant several miles the one from the other is immaterial; and in many cases, to enable the head of the family to maintain a prairie farm, it may be necessary to have woodland, which can only be obtained at a distance even as great as was the distance between the two tracts of land in this cause claimed to be the homestead of the appellants; but when the lands are separated there must be such use as will amount to a designation of homestead of the subsequently acquired parcel as fully as the same would be required in the original homestead. The constitution does not determine how the homestead shall be designated, but its protection is extended only to that which is homesteaded. Nor have we any statute which provides how the designation of the homestead shall be made, which is to be regretted.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Watkins v. Little