Patton v. Hanna’s Empirical Analysis
1870
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 1992
7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In these proceedings the utmost fairness and good faith should be observed, and if, from accident, mistake, or any cause, the parties interested have been prevented from looking after their interest, and the property has been sacrificed, a sound exercise of judicial discretion would demand that the sale be set aside.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Koester v. Koester
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.