Littlejohn v. . Egerton’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 1933
1 district · 3 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.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Can a husband who by parol waives his homestead and by assurances and representations that he never intends to claim a homestead induces persons to buy the land at full price including the homestead, afterwards change his mind and claim the homestead, or is he estopped by matter in pais because the successive purchasers would be injured by his false assurances and misrepresentations?””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hensley v. Lovely““The idea of an estoppel by matter in pais is out of the question.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hensley v. Lovely
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.