Franklin v. Haynes’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 1969
13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The issue in the case was, what portion of the land, if any, was in defendant’s possession. It seems to me that the judgment settles nothing, but leaves the rights of the parties where the pleadings and admissions left them. The issue is left to the determination of the sheriff when he undertakes to execute the writ. How could the sheriff know from a writ which follows the description contained in the judgment, where the line between these proprietors lay. The parties disagree, the witnesses differ, and the court does not decide. “The judgment for possession, where division lines are in dispute, should describe the land adjudged with sufficient certainty to enable the executive officer of the court to correctly and intelligently execute a writ of possession.””
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.