Bacot v. Varnado’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 1974
14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no public policy as to homesteads except that which the statute has declared; and that public policy, so far as contracts are concerned, like a mortgage upon a homestead, is confined exclusively to providing that such instruments shall not be valid unless joined in by the wife in the manner marked out by the law;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fairley v. Ladnier“have by their own voluntary, solemn contract, founded on a valuable consideration, bargained away their homestead.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.