Pullen v. Rianhard’s Empirical Analysis
1836
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 1939
6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is therefore fairly inferrible that the only question submitted to the decision of the arbitrators, was, whether agreeably to the provisions of the act, the plaintiff in the proceeding, commenced by him under it, was entitled, he having the sheriff’s deed for it, duly acknowledged in, and certified under the seal of the proper court, to recover the possession . . . the great object for passing it, was to put the purchaser at sheriff’s sale, in possession of the land bought by him, without any unreasonable delay; and that too, whether the sale was valid or not, so he had a deed for it, acknowledged and certified as mentioned above”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McMahon v. Taylor
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.