Sandlin v. Anders’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
118 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently March 1977 · most notably Kelly v. Carmichael (1928), Oden v. King (1927)
118 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 Lyon v. Powell · Bullock v. Knox · McQueen v. Turner · Fies v. Rosser · McMath v. DeBardelaben
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Equity abhors a multiplicity of suits. The lawmakers seem to do the same, and to that end enlarge the issues that may be tried in one suit in equity in partition proceedings. “The subject-matter and purpose of the suit seem, to be given controlling importance. The action relates to specific property.. It deals with the res. ' It aims at division so that each owner may enjoy his own. This partition may be by judicial sale. The owners are. concerned with getting a full price; the purchaser with getting a clear title. All questions of title should he settled, all clouds should be removed, all equities adjusted. Shall this be in one proceeding or in several, with consequent delay and cost?””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The court may adjust the equities between and determine all claims of the several cotenants or claimants as well as the equities and claims of the incumbrancers.” (Italics ours.) Sandlin v. Anders, 210 Ala. 396 , 98 So. 299 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stokes v. Stokes
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.