Allen v. Pierson’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 2013
20 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If by reason of the failure to demand a levy, etc., appellee’s land was sold without his knowledge and this failure of the officer, as a matter of fact, in any degree conduced to the inadequacy of consideration, it would entitle him to a decree vacating the sale.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harrison v. Sharpe
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.