Monks v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 2012
6 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 518 So. 2d 1270 - Florida Bar re Advisory Opinion Hrs Nonlawyer Counselor · 531 So. 2d 946 - Public Health Tr. of Dade Cty. v. Lopez · Spitzer v. Branning, Et Ux. · 578 So. 2d 701 - City Nat. Bank of Florida v. Tescher · 508 So. 2d 422 - E.J.K. v. State
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general rule is that the homestead passes free of claims of creditors if the devisee of the property under the will is an heir of the decedent who is entitled to receive property under the laws of intestacy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where a decedent is survived by a spouse or lineal descendants, homestead property is not regarded as an asset of the estate and is not subject to administration by a personal representative.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“right to take the property free from creditors' claims.”
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.