Henson v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 1932
3 federal appellate · 10 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Henson was essentially the vendor of Reed, and the sum which the latter had agreed to pay to Shelby county on the purchase-money notes made by the former was a part of the purchase-money Reed agreed to pay for the land, and when that was paid by Henson, at request of Reed, it in so far satisfied the' claim of Shelby county, but as between Henson and Reed left so much of the purchase money which the latter in effect had agreed to pay to the former, unpaid. We think the lien should have been established and foreclosed, if the proof showed that the land described in the petition was the same sold by Henson to Reed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Farquhar
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.