Andrews v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis
1858
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 1944
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 Jackson ex dem. Russell v. Rowland
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.
““It appeai-s that the ground of the motion to-dismiss, and of the action of the court thereon, was the previous order (at the spi-ing term, 1847) to the effect, that if the plaintiff should not amend his petition by the'first day of the term next succeeding the order, the case should be dismissed. The motion assumed that the failure to comply with the order operated a dismission of the cause. But this manifestly was a mistake. It required a final judgment, from which an appeal would lie, to effect such dismission. No such judgment was rendered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Until the sale was avoided at the instance of the defendants, the plaintiff, as the purchaser, was entitled to recover the possession. He might have brought his action against the tenant in possession, but it would seem the tenant was not obliged to defend against the title of the true owner, but might attorn to him.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.