Beckman v. Sikes’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 1998
12 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 Lane v. King · Jones v. Thomas · Sherman v. . Willett · Pitts v. Hendrix · Gillett v. Balcom
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact that the mortgagor or judgment debtor sold the growing crop prior to the sheriff’s sale of the land . . . does not vary the case, because he could not pass a title greater than his own, and therefore Sikes obtained no better right to the growing crop than Baker had or could give.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shockey v. Johntz
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.