Johnson v. Hendrickson’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Gartner v. Temple (2014), Wilcox v. Willard Shopping Center Associates (1988)
27 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 Larmon v. Larmon · Staples v. Pearson · Johns v. Johns · Hall v. Piddock · Williamson Investment Co. v. Williamson
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule as stated in Thorn v. Thorn, 14 Iowa 49 , [ 1862 WL 264 (1862)], and approved in Smith v. Wright, 195 Minn. 589 , 263 N.W. 903 [ (1935) ], is that: The homestead right is derived alone from the statute, but cannot be claimed and enforced by one tenant in common to the detriment of his co-tenants. Hence if he should happen to have erected and occupied a homestead on a piece of land which could not be partitioned without great prejudice to his co-tenants, it would have to be sold, but in that event the court would see that the value of the homestead and improvements, distinct from the land, would be secured to the party at whose expense and labor they had been made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wisner v. Pavlin“make suitable allowance, on partition, for improvements made in good faith by a cotenant in possession, to the extent that the value of the property has been enhanced thereby.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blue v. Blue
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.