Blandy v. Asher’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““No one can read with any degree of attention the provisions of our homestead act without reaching the same conclusion arrived at by most courts in construing similar legislative enactments, that such provisions were designed to mark out a course of enlightened public policy, whereby each family might secure a shelter, a place of refuge, against the storms of financial misfortune, which the greatest amount of human prudence and sagacity cannot always avert. Taking such a view, courts, for the most part, have held that these homestead laws, being of a liberal and beneficient nature, being designed to prevent pauperism and vagrancy and their consequent temptations to crime, should not be dwarfed, and their evident purpose thwarted by a narrow and illiberal construction. [Thompson on Homesteads, section 1, et seq., and cases cited.] Such statutory exemptions respecting land, are not in derogation of common law, and consequently, not to be strictly construed, because the whole matter of the sale of real estate under fi. fa., likewise its exemptions from such sale, is of purely statutory origin and regulation.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Williams v. Williams