Sullivan v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 1986
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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While there is no doubt of the application of caveat emptor to judicial sales generally, and while the courts in stating its application to such sales have said that it applies after confirmation, and that no relief can then be granted, the real rule is that if the facts authorizing a setting aside of the sale are called to the attention of the chancellor by exceptions or otherwise during the term at which the sale is reported, and at a time when it is within his power to correct any injustice, he not only has the right and power, but it is his duty, to consider such exceptions and pass upon them, and if necessary to set aside an order of confirmation already made.””
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.