Dodson v. Middleton’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 1952 · most notably Stolfa v. Gaines (1929), Sandlin v. Barker (1923)
30 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 Armstrong v. Hufty · Morgan v. Hazlehurst Lodge · Griffin v. Dunn · O'Keefe v. Behrens · Toll v. Wright
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"There is nothing in the policy or language of the statute which excludes void sales from its operation. The policy of the statute is to quiet titles to real estate sold by order of the probate courts; and, in view of that policy merely, there can be no distinction between sales which may be termed void for the want of jurisdiction and those which are voidable only. Nor is there anything in the language of the statute which creates such a distinction. * * * (If the statute applies only to valid sales), the defendant in every ease would be compelled to allege and prove a valid sale before he could invoke the protection of the statute; or, in other words, he must show that he stands in no need of protection in order to obtain protection. * * * We think the statute applies to all sales, Void as well as voidable.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““An action for the recovery of real property sold by executors, administrators or guardians, upon an order or judgment of a court directing such sale, brought by the heirs or devisees of the deceased person; or the .ward or his guardian, or any person claiming under any or either of them, by the title acquired after the date of the judgment or order, within five years after the date of the recording of the deed made in pursuance of the sale””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sandlin v. Barker““Any person entitled to bring an action for the recovery of real property, who may be under any legal» disability when the cause of action accrues, may bring his action within two years after the disability is removed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dierks v. Isaac
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.