Springer v. Townsend’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 1990
4 federal appellate · 1 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * such approval orders are not subject to impeachment except for extrinsic fraud or want of jurisdiction appearing on the judgment roll. Where the judgment roll or record clearly speaks, it is conclusive as to jurisdiction. If it is silent, it is presumed that jurisdiction existed. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Springer v. Townsend“* * * [A]ll orders of the county court approving such conveyances of such land shall be in open court and shall be conclusive as to the jurisdiction of such court to approve such deed * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Springer v. Townsend“* * * attempted to stabilize the orders of approval thereafter made * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Springer v. Townsend
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.