Lord v. Hawkins’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1946 · most notably Mackenzie v. A. Engelhard & Sons Co. (1924), Gray v. Lawlor (1907)
1 federal appellate · 27 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 Frankoviz v. Smith · Brisbin v. American Express Co.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The second question in the case is, does a purchaser in good faith from the successful party in a judgment determining the title to real estate come within the rule which protects a bona fide purchaser under a judicial sale — that is, a sale made pursuant to a judgment, or to enforce a judgment — from the effect of a subsequent reversal or vacation of the judgment? The reason for the rule is obvious, and suggests the answer to the question. It is founded upon considerations of public policy which require that property shall not be sacrificed at sales that the law makes; that at such sales purchasers shall be encouraged to bid a fair price. And this cannot be effected if the title they acquire is subject to be defeated in consequence of 'errors or irregularities in the judgment under or pursuant to which the sale is made.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.