Howell v. Jump’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 1953
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Bliss v. Prichard · Farrar v. Dean · Macey v. Stark · Brawford v. Wolfe · Rogers v. Johnson
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact that the land only sold at the administrator’s sale for enough to pay the costs of the administration does not defeat this sale. It is true, a sale of land by an administrator can only be made for the payment of the debts of deceased. A sale made merely for the purpose of paying the costs of administration has been held to be invalid. Parrar v. Dean, 24 Mo. 16 . But in this sale there were debts remaining unpaid and the sale was made for the purpose of paying them. The court, therefore, had jurisdiction to order the sale and the purchaser was not bound to bid an amount which would pay the debts or to see that the money paid was prop erly applied(Emphasis mine.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harrelson v. Crooks
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.