Cross v. Benson’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 1997 · most notably Estate of Johnson v. Johnson (1969), Holmes v. Holmes (1910)
40 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Matter of City of Rochester · Love v. Blauw · Wade v. Jones · Capek v. Kropik · Matter of Bingham
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But the saving of a home to the family free from alienation, without joint consent, and beyond the reach of process of the law, was of overshadowing importance. Therefore, while section 6 directs the legislature to provide for the protection of the rights of women in acquiring and possessing property, real, personal and mixed, separate and apart from their husbands, section 9 itself creates, limits and defines the homestead right.” (Page 501.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Towle v. Towle““A homestead to the extent of one hundred and sixty acres of farming land, or of one acre within the limits of an incorporated town or city, occupied as a residence by the family of the owner, together with all the improvements on the same, shall be exempted from forced sale under any process of law, and shall not be alienated without the joint consent' of husband and wife, when that relation exists.” (Art. 15, § 9.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Towle v. Towle““And since the lots in question were continually impressed with the homestead interest of Sue S. Cross in the lifetime of her husband, at the date of his death and during the following years until her own demise, creditors enjoyed no rights to which such lots were subject or to which the making -of a will of them was subject.” (p. 506.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.