Waggle v. Worthy’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 12 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““But so far as this record shows, the sale to Jacobs was of no effect. A homestead is exempt from execution, and if the land was worth more than $5,000 (which does not appear), the proceedings provided by the code for ad-measuring the excess (Civ. Code, secs. 1245 et seq.) should have been taken. This not. having been done, the attempted sale was void, the homestead still existed, and was not abandoned by the claimants moving off the premises. In this state, ‘a homestead can be abandoned only by a declaration of abandonment, or a grant thereof, executed and acknowledged/ etc. (Civ. Code, sec. 1243.) It results that the first homestead was a valid and subsisting homestead at the time the second was attempted to be declared. A party cannot have two homesteads; and if he attempts to acquire a second while the first is in force, the second is void.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hair v. Davenport

2. “A party cannot have two homesteads; and if he attempts to acquire a second while the first is in force, the second is void.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Donner