Sample v. Sample’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 1924
5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If, however, the real estate should be partitioned and afterward it be found that the personal assets were not sufficient to pay all' claims against the estate, then the real estate or a portion thereof ■ could be sold to satisfy such claims.” (p. 77.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rippe v. Weiters
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.