Henderson v. Herrod’s Empirical Analysis
1852
Citation profile
2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 1924
2 district · 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 Codwise v. Gelston
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Sales by a commissioner under decree of the chancery court should be regulated very much by the same rules which apply to execution sales at law by a sheriff. The objection in each instance is the same, namely, the execution of the judgment or decree of the court; and the interests of suitors, as well as public policy, demand that the sales should be in each instance alike certain and obligatory, and that the title which a purchaser obtains in either mode should possess a similar degree of validity and forco.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McBride v. Gwynn
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.