Eggemeyer v. Eggemeyer’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2012
5 federal appellate · 8 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 Dakan v. Dakan · Eggemeyer v. Eggemeyer · Colden v. Alexander · Sullivan v. Barnett · Tanton v. State National Bank
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he homestead of a family or a single adult person, shall be, and is hereby protected from forced sale, for the payment of all debts except for the purchase money thereof, or a part of such purchase money, the taxes due thereon, or for work and material used in constructing improvements thereon, and in this last case only when the work and material are contracted for in writing, with the consent of both spouses...,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Heggen v. Pemelton · In Re Dawson
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.