McCardell v. Lea’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 1972 · most notably Clements v. Texas Co. (1925), Continental Supply Co. v. Missouri, K. & T. Ry. Co. of Texas (1925)
27 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The policy of the law does not require courts to scrutinize the proceedings of a judicial sale with a view to defeat them; on the contrary, every reasonable intendment will be made in their favor, so as to secure, if it can be done consistent with legal rules the object they were intended to accomplish.”
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.