Stark v. Duvall’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1926
11 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 Wolf v. Marsh · Orr v. Stewart · Spiess v. Neuberg · Hawley v. . Keeler · Boyd v. Cudderback
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A person making entry under the homestead laws of the United States may execute a valid mortgage upon land so entered, prior to submitting final proof and receiving the final certificate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““No lands acquired under the provisions of this chapter shall in any event become liable to the satisfaction of any debt contracted prior to the issuing of the patent therefor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘‘The mortgagor is estopped from defeating by his own act the operation and enforcement of the lien appellants have attempted to create.””
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.