Beard v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2004
8 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.
Relationships
Relies on Tyler v. Jewett · Dicus v. Hall, Hooper & Co. · Bender v. Meyer & Co. · Weiner v. Sterling
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is manifest that ownership, entire or partial, in fee or for a term, is one of the essentials of rightful claim of homestead exemption.... And there can not, at one and the same time, ‘be two separate valid homestead claims. ... ’ ... We think it is manifestly against both the letter and spirit of the law, that the two holdings, being not in common, but by different persons, should be tacked, the one to the other, and thus become an individual homestead, claimable by either. [The wife], owning, and, together with the family, occupying the homestead proper — the land on which they resided — was, without doubt, entitled to claim its exemption from debts. This disabled [the husband], so long as that ownership and occupancy lasted, to assert homestead in other lands, on which the family did not reside.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is manifest that ownership, entire or partial, in fee or for a term, is one of the essentials of rightful claim of homestead exemption. If there is no ownership, there is . . . no occasion or field of operation for the claim of exemption.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.