McDonough v. Elam’s Empirical Analysis
1830
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently December 1947
4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the present case less than ten dollars were due by one of the parties and __________ by the other, he therefore should have begun by selling one lot and then another, till he had raised a sufficient sum, or at least put up one determinate square, without selling at once, twelve indefinite lots.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“He who sells his own property, may do so in any manner which will be agreed on by a vendee, but an officer who makes a forced sale has no right to carve out any particular estate unnecessarily and gratuitously, without the consent of the owner.”
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.