De Forest v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
40 F. 375 · 1889
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1941
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Payne v. Hook · Johnson v. Waters · Arrowsmith v. Gleason · Hardin v. Boyd · Simpson v. Edmiston
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That the former owner had a right to call at the recorder’s office after the sale of his lands, and demand the production of the sheriff’s report for his examination. If he discovered that there was no evidence when the report was filed, he could rest upon his rights, for tie statute required the list to be filed within ten days after the sale. It must in some way affirmatively appear, and not be left to presumption, that tbe sheriff has discharged his duty, which ordinarily, in this class of cases, would be a violent one.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cook v. Lasher
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.