Sapinsky v. Stout’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1978
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 Raphael v. Zehner
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a court of equity will set aside a sheriff's sale, on proper terms, even if there has been no fraud, where there is gross inadequacy of price, and the party, by reason of mistake or misapprehension , did not attend the sale, and the sacrifice was caused by such mistake or misapprehension.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Young v. Weber“Appellant was without any relief that could be accorded by the Circuit Court, because the deed from the sheriff, in execution of his writ, had been delivered before appellant discovered the situation, if the allegations of the bill are true.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.