Morgan v. Rountree’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 1926
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Coates v. Caldwell · Cobbs v. Coleman · Alexander v. Holt · Wade v. Weslow & Co. · Anderson v. McKay
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.
“.“We think it is in harmony with the evident spirit and purpose of our statute to hold that the head of a family owning a homestead has a right to hold as exempt, not only the homestead and its use, but also crops or money which he may derive from its use while the property continues to be his homestead.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Sullivan““It is certainly the spirit and purpose to exempt, not only the homestead', but also the use thereof; for without the use the exemption would be valueless.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Sullivan
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.