Brown v. Starr’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
3
states following
November 1916
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brooks v. Hyde
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““■Whenever it appears that a homestead claimant holds land of greater value than $5,000 [the amount of the exemption allowed], and a creditor seeks to subject the excess to his execution, the court must first find out, through appraisers, whether it [the homestead] can he ‘divided without material injury,’ ” etc.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crosby v. Anderson
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.