King v. Welborn’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 11 state decisions

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

1. ““But it is insisted that this building was occupied by petitioner and his-faun'ly for the sole purpose of conducting a hotel, and that therefore no homo- stead right attached. We cannot agree with this contention. The adoption of this doctrine would be in plain defiance of the statute, and render it nugatory as to those engaged in the business of hotel keeping. The benefits of this statute are to be secured to all owners of land which they occupy with their families, and who have no other home. There is no intent apparent anywhere to exclude the families of hotel keepers from the benefits of the act.””

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

2. “One who has constructed his house, which he occupies as a homestead, upon two lots, is not thereby to be deprived of his exemption. If the property comprising his homestead is worth more than $1,500, the statute provides a way by which he may receive the value of his exemption, and his creditors the balance to apply on his debts.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fox v. Brannan