Sache v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently March 2003 · most notably Travelers Indemnity Company v. Nationwide Construction Corporation (1966), Scannell v. Ed. Ferreirinha & Irmao, Lda. (1987)
1 federal appellate · 73 state decisions — followed in 23 states
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 Ex Parte Nielsen · Reynolds v. Stockton · Cuddy · United States v. Walker · King v. Chase
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is further adjudged and decreed that all the right, title, interest, estate or lien in, to, upon, or against said premises, held, owned, or possessed by said Ellen M. Gillette [defendant], be and it is hereby transferred to and vested in William R. Sache, the plaintiff in this action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pilney v. Funk““As against a defendant who does not answer, the relief granted to plaintiff shall not exceed that demanded in the complaint. Against all others, he may have any relief consistent with the complaint and within the issue actually tried.””
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.