Sibley v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 1985
3 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Those rules never assume to take from a prior incumbrancer any substantial right. Their purpose is to require the prior incumbrancer to enforce his just rights in such order of priority as, without loss to himself, will protect, as far as may be practicable, the subsequently acquired interests of others.” Sibley v. Baker, 23 Mich. 315 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Farwell v. Bigelow
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.