Cox v. Hart’s Empirical Analysis
145 U.S. 376 · 1892
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1967 · most notably Isaacs v. United States (1895), Cooke v. Avery (1893)
25 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 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 White v. Luning · Jonathan Reed v. The Proprietors of Locks and Canals on Merrimac River · Blake v. Doherty
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The policy of The law does not require courts to scrutinize the proceedings of a judicial sale, with a view to defeat them. On the contrary, every reasonable intendment will be made in their favor, so as to secure, if it can be done consistently with the legal rules, the object they were intended to accomplish.” White v. Luning, 93 U. S. 514 -523; Cox v. Hart, 145 U. S. 376 -387, 12 Sup. Ct. 962 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fleischman v. Bowser
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.