Florentine v. Barton’s Empirical Analysis
69 U.S. 210 · 1864
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 6 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1945 · most notably Noble v. Union River Logging Railroad (1893), Ex Parte Lennon (1897)
7 federal appellate · 6 district · 23 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In making the order of sale the court is presumed to have adjudged every question necessary to justify such order or decree.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Graff v. Louis · Jarrell v. Cole
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.