Archibald v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently August 2004 · most notably Cameron Co. v. Gebhard (1893), Bayless v. Guthrie (1921)
2 federal appellate · 75 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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Abandonment of property actually homestead, cannot be accomplished by mere intention; there must be a discontinuance of the use coupled with an intention not again to use as a home to constitute abandonment; and without an abandonment of an existing homestead no right can exist to fix that character to another property, unless it be by way of addition to the existing homestead.””
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.