Holly v. Travis’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 1983 · most notably 134 Pa. Super. 62 - Commonwealth v. Bergen (1938), Nuttallburg Smokeless Fuel Co. v. First National Bank (1921)
32 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 Park Brothers & Co. v. Oil City Boiler Works · Lacock v. White · Road Commissioners v. Fickinger · Wistar v. Ollis · Esling's Appeal
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The effect of a sheriff’s return is not statutory. It is conclusive because it becomes part of the records of a court of record, which ‘are of such high and super-eminent authority that their truth is not to be called in question. For it is a settled rule and maxim that nothing shall be averred against a record, nor shall any plea, or even proof, be admitted to the contrary:’ 3 Blackstone 24.””
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.