Inge v. Cain’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably Sullivan v. Barnett (1971), INWOOD NORTH HOMEOWNERS'ASS'N v. Harris (1987)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 35 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.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are of opinion that the clause quoted from the Constitution of 1876 renders all liens upon the homestead, not expressly excepted, absolutely void, and that they are not vitalized by the divestiture of the homestead character. The owner is no longer tempted to stake the home of his family upon desperate or delusive ventures, and the creditor can no more gamble upon the chances of the cessation of the homestead use.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““What cannot ‘ever be valid’ is never valid, and what is never valid is always void.””
2 later decisions 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.