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58 U.S. 584 · 1854

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
July 1895
most recently cited

4 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Greenleaf v. Cook · Loftin v. Shackelford

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““ The rule of the courts of Mississippi, as well as of this court, is that, except in specific cases, a vendee in possession cannot, at law or in equity, contest the payment of the purchase money stipulated in a contract of sale by an alleged defect of title, but reliance must be placed on the covenants it contains.””
    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.