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141 U.S. 543 · 1891

Citation profile

27
cited by 27 later decisions
3
cited 3 times by the Supreme Court
4
states following
November 1948
most recently cited

8 federal appellate · 10 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 27 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1948 · most notably Nielsen v. Johnson (1929), Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Johnson (1894)

8 federal appellate · 10 state decisions

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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.

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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““Although the decree of sale provided that all claims, debts, and demands accruing during the receivership should be barred unless presented within six months after the confirmation of the sale, yet the decree of confirmation provided that the purchasers should take the property, and that the .deed should recite that they took it, subject to all debts,' claims, and demands, of whatsoever nature, incurred by the receiver, and which might remain unpaid at the termination of his receivership. It does not appear that the purchasers objected to the terms of the decree of confirmation, or appealed to this court from that decree. They might have done both, on the ground that the decree of confirmation varied from the terms of the decree of sale under which they had bought, in destroying the six-months limitation.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. McCloskey v. Shortle

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.