Julia Thompson Tenant v. Alice Tolmie’s Empirical Analysis
27 U.S. 157 · 1829
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1999 · most notably Teague v. Lane (1989), Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co. (1923)
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 41 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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 Jackson ex dem. M'Crea v. Bartlett · Jackson ex dem. Carman v. Rosevelt · Cox v. Dawson · 11 Serg. & Rawle 422 - M'Pherson v. Cunliff
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The jurisdiction of the court (under whose order the sale was made) over the subject-matter appears upon the face of the proceedings; and its errors or mistakes, if any were committed, cannot be corrected or examined when brought up collaterally as they were in the Circuit Court””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The law appears to be settled in the States that courts will go. far to sustain bona fide titles acquired under sales made by statutes regulating sales made by order of the orphans’ courts. When there has been a fair sale the purchaser will not be bound to look beyond the decree, if' the facts necessary to give the court- jurisdiction appear on the face of the proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Gaines“are by no means subject to all the exceptions which might be taken on a direct appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Martin v. Wilks
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.