Summerville v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently May 2000 · most notably First National Bank in Dallas v. Whirlpool Corp. (1974), Harrop v. National Loan & Investment Co. of Detroit (1918)
67 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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It will be seen from these provisions that as against the rights of the lienholder the improvements did not become a part of the real estate, but are treated as if they had been made under a contract for removal, because the statute provides that the foreclosure may be had upon the house [or improvements] alone, and that the purchaser might remove it, which could not be done consistently with the proposition that such improvement became a part of the realty.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““There is no evidence of any homestead right in the land in question prior to the making of the contract between Hanks and wife [it should be Summerville and wife], and B. R. Jones for the building of the house.””
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.