Laforest v. Barrow’s Empirical Analysis
1857
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
May 1957
most recently cited
2 state decisions
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * we think that where a sale of the mortgaged property has been made under an order of seizure and sale, and possession has followed the title, that an error in some of the boundaries ought not to be permitted to defeat the title, where the most important calls in the description are answered, and the identity of the tract is also established aliunde * * * ””
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.