Rollins v. O'Farrel’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2004
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Admitting, however, * * * that where there is an abandonment with a fixed intention not to return, the property may be open to creditors; yet it must lie undeniably dear and beyond almost the shadow at least of all reasonable ground of dispute that there has been a total abandonment, with an intention not to return and claim the exemption.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dunn v. Eckhardt““Before either of them will omiso to he a part of it ~ * * it must be applied to uses inconsistent with the uses for which the homestead is protected — to uses which clearly show an intention no longer to use it for purposes of a home.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dunn v. Eckhardt““And if from all the testimony it clearly appears that the same was permanently abandoned,” etc.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dunn v. Eckhardt
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.