Lamaster v. Keeler’s Empirical Analysis
123 U.S. 376 · 1887
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 9 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1994 · most notably Daniel Holden v. J a Stratton (1905), Chateaugay Ore & Iron Co. (1888)
26 federal appellate · 9 district · 6 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 Wayman v. Southard · Nudd v. Burrows · Minnesota Company v. St Paul Company · Blossom v. The Milwaukee Railroad Company · Bank of the United States v. Halstead
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * the act of the clerk extending that judgment against the sureties was without authority and void. The sale, under the execution of the property of La-master, one of the sureties, and the deed of the marshal to the purchaser at such sale, therefore, conferred no title. The confirmation of the sale by the order of the court did not cure the invalidity of the execution upon which it was made. The extension of the judgment against Young, so as to embrace the sureties, being a void proceeding, no subsequent action upon the sale could give it validity. A confirmation of a sale may cure mere irregularities not affecting its fairness, but not an infirmity growing out of the nullity of the judgment under which it was had.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wunnicke v. Leith““The practice, pleadings, and forms and modes of proceeding in civil causes, other than equity and admiralty causes, in the Circuit and District Courts, shall conform, as near as may be, to the practice, pleadings, and forms and. modes of proceeding existing at the time in like causes in the courts of record of the state within which such Circuit or District Courts are held, any rule of court to the contrary notwithstanding.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Shall be entitled to similar remedies upon the same, by execution or otherwise, to reach the property of the judgment debtor, as are now provided in like causes by the laws of the state in which such court is held, or by any such laws hereafter enacted which may be adopted by general rules of such courts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sowles v. Witters
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.