Bonner v. Lockhart’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2017
16 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 Ashurst v. Arnold-Henegar-Doyle Co. · Lovelace v. Webb · Ray's Adm'r v. Womble · White v. Farley · Cowan & Co. v. Sapp
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No irregularity in the conduct of the sale, such as failure to post notice of the sale at the courthouse door, Code, § 7825, failure to give personal notice of the levy, Code, § 7819, or a delay of some three months before executing the sheriff’s deed, which should be executed within five days after the sale, Code, § 7838, nor all of them will suffice to render the sale void on collateral attack. A valid judgment, execution thereon, levy and sale, all evidenced prima facie by recitals in the deed, suffice to protect the purchaser. Code, § 7706; (Citations Omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sterling v. Colvard
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.