Fitzell v. Leaky’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 1977 · most notably Smith v. Bangham (1909), Taylor v. Madigan (1975)
2 federal appellate · 25 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 Sparks v. Hess · City of San Francisco v. Calderwood · McCracken v. Harris · Pico v. Colimas · Sullivan v. Hendrickson
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has never been held that a homestead was Invalidated because the declarant was in debt, or declared the homestead to protect it from existing debts. * * * The law authorizes a debtor to erect a barrier around the nome, over which the sheriff, although armed with final processes under such a judgment, cannot pass. With the policy of the law or the abstract morality of a transaction, we have nothing to do. The doctrine bearing upon conveyances made to hinder, delay, or defraud creditors has no application to the creation of a homestead.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Wilson
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.