Riggs v. Sterling’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 1988 · most notably Walton v. Walton (1943), In Re Carothers' Estate (1946)
1 federal appellate · 29 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 Franklin v. Coffee · Beecher v. Baldy · Wallace v. Harris · Showers v. Robinson · Dye v. Mann
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The homestead exemption, as it now exists, is not •only a privilege conferred (Chamberlain v. Lyell, 3 Mich. 458 ), but, under the Constitution, it is an absolute right. ‘It was intended to secure against creditors a Lome, and, to a certain extent, the means of support, to every family in the State.’ Dye v. Mann, 10 Mich. 297 ; McKee v. Wilcox, 11 Mich. 358 ( 83 Am. Dec. 743 ).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eagle v. Smylie
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.