Laughlin v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 1944
17 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 Gregg v. Bostwick · Ackley & Dana v. Chamberlain · Mann v. Rogers
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But the mere filing of a declaration of homestead does not of itself constitute the premises embraced within it the homestead of the declarant. The use of the property is an important element to be considered. From the record in this case it appears that the premises in question were used by the Wrights primarily and principally as a hotel, for the accommodation of the public..... But their residence there was but incidental to the business of running the hotel.....It would be doing violence to the statute to regard property so used as a homestead, which is, and was intended to be, the place where the home is.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Maloney v. Hefer
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.