Sands v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1941 · most notably Hodgson v. Federal Oil & Development Co. (1927), Defreese v. Lake (1896)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If Sands had gone into possession by the aid of the other tenants, or in recognition of their rights, he might in that way, perhaps, have incurred some duties towards them. But he went in as a stranger to their claims, under a claim which denied their existence or validity.” 1”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Simons v. Rood““The case of Blackwood v. Van Vleit, 30 Mich. 118 , holds, in conformity with these views, that there can be no estoppel against purchasing tax titles except against one who had a duty to pay the tax or remove the burden.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ball v. Harpham
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.