Cumming v. . Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1980
4 federal appellate · 12 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The taking by a deputy sheriff, by virtue o£ an attachment, of property supposed to be the property of the debtor, and the sale of that property under execution to satisfy the judgment in the action, are official acts; and if it turns out that the property did not belong to the debtor, and that the deputy sheriff has thereby incurred a liability to the true owner, it is a liability incurred by the doing of an official act"”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Murphy v. Callan
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.