Cullers v. James’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 55 state decisions

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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If the head of a family owns a house and no interest or estate in the land on which it stands, the house is a chattel. If he occupies it with his family, it is their home. He may be compelled to move it from one lot to another as fast as legal process can oust him, still, though ambulatory, unsatisfactory, and in all its appointments mean; though it advertises the thriftless poverty of its proprietors, and. is a caricature of the princely possibility of the exemption laws, it is the home of a family, and is embraced in the spirit and purpose, if not the letter, of the Constitution. The same principles under our present Constitution must be applied to the place of business of the head of the family.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. First Nat. Bank of Kaufman v. Dismukes

2. “The property out of which this litigation arose was not only community property, but was claimed to be exempt from forced sale. Mrs. James, therefore, had in it a special interest, which the husband could no more sacrifice by abandonment than he could otherwise dispose of without her consent.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lincoln v. Stone

3. “.She [the wife] has equally with her husband an interest in the community property * * *.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ramming v. Commissioner