Johnson v. Lindsay’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 1937
4 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.
“‘ ‘ While the confirmation of a sale relates back to the date of the sale, the proceedings under an execution or order of sale are in fieri, and not perfected until the court has examined the proceedings, and directed the clerk to make an entry on the journal that the court is satisfied with the legality of the sale, and for the officer to make to the purchaser a deed for the lands and tenements so sold. The officer making the sale retains the purchase-money in his hands until the court confirms the proceedings, and no title passes to the purchaser without the order of confirmation, and until such confirmation the sale is not legally consummated, so as to entitle the purchaser to a conveyance thereof.””
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.