Sampson v. Williamson’s Empirical Analysis
1851
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1938
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.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The legislature shall have power, and it shall be their duty, to protect by law from forced sale a certain portion of the property of all heads of families. The homestead of a family not to exceed two hundred acres of land- (not included in a city, town, or village), or any -city, town, or village lot or- lots not to, exceed five thousand dollars in -value at the time of their destination as a homestead, and without reference to the value of-any. improvements thereon, shall not be subject to forced sale for debts, except-they -be for the purchase thereof, for the taxes assessed thereon, or for labor and materials expended thereon ; nor shall the owner, if a married man, be at liberty to alienate the same, unless by' the consent of the wife,-and in such manrier as. may be prescribed by law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lanahan v. Sears““A mortgage depending for its enforcement on judicial process would be ineffectual, because a sale under such process would be forced [sale]. But a sale under a power in a mortgagee or trustee would be voluntary; and the assent of the wife would give as much validity to such mortgage as to an absolute and immediate sale.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schutze v. Dabney
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.