McNamee v. Cole’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 1981
10 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 Riggs v. . Pursell · Jordan v. . Poillon · Hammond v. Cailleaud · Dispensary Commissioners v. Thornton · Owsley v. Heirs of Smith
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The statutes provided then, as they do now, if a bidder at an execution sale refused to pay the amount of his bid for property struck off to him, the officer making the sale might again sell to the highest bidder as though no previous sale had occurred, and, if a loss was occasioned,-recover the amount of it on motion before a court or justice in a summary way.””
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.