Macklin v. Allenberg’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 1992 · most notably Pettis v. Johnston (1920), Di Nola v. Allison (1904)
2 federal appellate · 28 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.
Relationships
Relies on Vogler v. Montgomery · Marks v. Cowles · Allen, Ball & Co. v. Mayor of Savannah · Gott v. Powell · International Bank v. Jenkins
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Judicial sales, made under judgments and decrees afterwards reversed, to strangers, are upheld, it is often said, to encourage bidders, and on grounds of public policy; but the true reason is that such purchasers, as well as purchasers from parties to the suit, have a right to rely upon the validity of the judgment or decree, execution not having been stayed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.