Anderson v. Sessions’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 federal appellate · 15 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If playgrounds and shady parks, with graveled walks used only for pleasure or ornamentation, are protected, because used for the purposes of a home, we think that a little garden spot, although in a distant suburb of the town, would not be an improper or an unreasonable addition to the homestead, whore it is used for the purpose of supplying the home table with the necessaries and comforts of life.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dunn v. Eckhardt

2. ““The question is not whether any portion of this adjoining block may have been a necessity or a mere convenience to the enjoyment of the homestead, but whether, in'fact, it was a part of the homestead. If it was, the fact that it may have been used as an approach to the mansion, or for purposes of ornamentation of pleasure grounds only, would not defeat it of the homestead iJrotection””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dunn v. Eckhardt

3. ““ * * * The homestead in a city, town or village, shall consist of lot or lots, not to exceed in value five thousand dollars at the time of their designation as the homestead, without reference to the value of any improvements thereon; provided, that the same shall be used for the purposes of a home, or as a place to exercise the calling or business of the head of the family.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. First Nat. Bank of McGregor v. Rice-Stix Dry Goods Co.