Apple v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 1997 · most notably Fiscus v. Beartooth Electric Cooperative, Inc. (1979), Nesbit v. City of Albuquerque (1977)
26 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 Carlson v. Northern Pacific Railway Co. · Crawford v. Pierse · Anderson v. Border · State Ex Rel. Delmoe v. District Court · Hanrahan v. Andersen
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he rule is well established and long adhered to in this state that where upon an appeal, the Supreme Court, in deciding a case presented states in its opinion a principle or rule of law necessary to the decision, such pronouncement becomes the law of the case, and must be adhered to throughout its subsequent progress, both in the trial court and upon subsequent appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The general rule is that an execution may not issue upon a void judgment; an execution so issued is itself absolutely void, and such invalidity extends to acts performed thereunder. Accordingly, title does not pass to a purchaser at an execution sale, where the judgment supporting it is void. * * * ” 21 Am.Jur., Executions, p. 27, section 23, cited in Apple v. Edwards, 123 Mont. 135 , 211 P.2d 138 , at page 141.”
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.