Love v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1851
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 1999 · most notably Pasco v. Harley (1917), Evins v. Gainesville National Bank (1920)
2 federal appellate · 22 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“who had purchased bona fide and for a valuable consideration from the defendant, between the teste of the writ and the day of its actual issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that sales made by the sheriff ought not to be defeated; for if they are, no man will buy goods levied upon a writ of execution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.