Lackland v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 1933
1 federal appellate · 6 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 Tappan v. Evans · Rogers v. Brown · Lackland v. Garesche · McIlvaine v. Smith · Kent v. Curtis
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was a judgment, however, binding Smith’s interest in the property described in the attachment, and within the jurisdiction of the court. It gave to plaintiff a right also to proper proceedings to subject the equitable interest of Smith in this real estate to the payment of the amount found to be due. Under this execution plaintiff declined to sell any interest of Smith’s, declaring that he was unwilling by such a sale to sacrifice valuable property, and he very properly, on this state of facts, commenced proceedings in equity to enforce, without any unnecessary sacrifice of a valuable interest in real estate, the legal rights which he had in his action of law established against any interest Smith may have in the property attached.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.