Milton v. Milton’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Jones Trustee Etc. v. Carpenter (1925), 790 So. 2d 1018 - Havoco of America, Ltd. v. Hill (2001)
4 federal appellate · 41 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 Smith v. Gufford · Letchford v. Cary · McMichael v. Grady · Brandies v. Perry
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A homestead to the extent of one hundred and sixty acres of land, or the half of one acre within the limits of any incorporated city or town, owned by the head of a family residing in this State, together with one thousand dollars worth of personal property, and the improvements on the real estate, shall be exempt from forced sale under process of any court, * * *." (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * the law should not be so applied as to make it an instrument of fraud or imposition upon creditors”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“shall inure to the widow and heirs of the party entitled to such exemption.”
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.