Marsh v. Marsh’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably Ruff v. Guaranty Title & Trust Co. (1930), Halstead v. Florence Citrus Growers Assn. (1932)
2 federal appellate · 31 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 Schroeder v. Young · Capital City Bank v. Hilson · Macfarlane v. Macfarlane · Lawyers' Co-operative Publishing Co. v. Bennett · Florida Fertilizer Manufacturing Co. v. Hodge
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"That courts of equity have a general supervision over judicial sales made under their decrees, and may set aside or vacate sales for cause, even after confirmation, there can be no question."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`when such inadequacy is connected with or shown to result from any mistake, accident, surprise, misconduct, fraud, or irregularity, the sale will generally be set aside.' 39”
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.