Austin v. Dobbins’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2000
11 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 Fitzgerald v. Fitzgerald · Lester Coal Corporation v. Lester · Johnson v. Merritt · Driskill v. Carwile · Senger v. Senger's Ex'or
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A judicial sale is not consummated until the proceeding is confirmed by the court. Until then the proceeding is in fieri, the accepted bidder is merely a preferred proposer, and the Court retains the power to set the proceeding aside and order a new sale.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“This appeal challenges the validity of a judicial sale partitioning real estate. . . .”
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.