Palmer v. Sterling’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1906
1 federal appellate · 4 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All the authorities rest upon the basis that the land was actually sold for an agreed consideration, payable at all events, and payable as the purchase price. Unless there was a sale for a' price, there could be no such relation as that of unpaid vendor and responsible purchaser. The lien can only exist as collateral to a debt which was a part of the transaction, and created simultaneously with the sale.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dunton v. Outhouse
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.