Robert Parker and Miles White v. William Overman’s Empirical Analysis
59 U.S. 137 · 1855
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 7 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2017 · most notably Arndt v. Griggs (1890), Robertson v. Cease (1878)
21 federal appellate · 7 district · 16 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 Jerome Pillow v. Truman Roberts · Williams v. Peyton's Lessee · John Games v. John Stiles
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the petition to remove this case from the state court there was not a proper averment as to the citizenship of the plaintiff in error. It is alleged that Parker resided in Tennessee and White in Maryland. ‘Citizenship’ and ‘residence’ are not synonymous terms; but, as the record was afterwards so amended as to show conclusively the citizenship of the parties, the court below had, and this court have, undoubted jurisdiction of the case.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Arndt v. Griggs · Martin v. Barbour““The principal objection to the regularity of the sale in this case, and the only one necessary to be noticed, is that the land was not legally assessed. A legal assessment is the foundation of the authority to sell; and, if this objection be sustained, it is fatal to the deed. In order to qualify the sheriff to fulfill the duties of assessor, t-ho statute requires that on or before the 10th day of January in each year the sheriff of each county shall make and file in the office of the clerk of the county an affidavit in the following form, etc., and if any sheriff shall neglect to file such affidavit within the time prescribed in the preceding section, his office shall be deemed vacant, and it shall be the duty of the clerk of the county court without delay to notify the governor of such vacancy. * * * The record shows that Peyton S. Bethel, the then sheriff of the county of Dallas, did not file his oath as assessor on or before the 10th of January, as required by law. He did file an oath on the 15th of March, but this was not a compliance with the law, and conferred no power on him to act as assessor. On the contrary, by liis neglect to comply with the law his office of sheriff became ipso facto vacated, and any assessment made by him in that year was void, and could not be the foundation for a legal sale.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Martin v. Barbour
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.