Apperson & Co. v. Burgett’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 1962
18 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 Ames v. Gilmore · Noble v. Coleman · Paulling v. Sturgus · Noble v. Noble · Monell v. Scherrick
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““According to the principles established in this court nearly a quarter of a century ago, and since maintained without question, the lien of the judgment was subject to all valid liens upon the lands at the time of the rendition, whether recorded or not. It bound only what the debtor then had, and was effective only to prevent future alienations or incumbrances. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fears v. Futrell
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.