Spaulding v. O'Connor’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 1948 · most notably Tromble v. Hoffman (1902), Wilkin v. Keith (1899)
25 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 Pew Abic Min Co v. Mason Marcus · Goodwin v. Burns · Bullard v. Green · Leonard v. Taylor · Lyon v. Brunson
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ If we hold that a sale may be set aside for irregularities, other than the two excepted, upon petition filed after confirmation, we shall have difficulty in finding a purpose for this provision, and in such case it might as well have been omitted from the law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gates v. Johnson
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.