Slater v. Maxwell’s Empirical Analysis
73 U.S. 268 · 1867
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably McArthur v. Scott (1885), Robb v. Vos (1894)
7 federal appellate · 15 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 Laidlaw v. Organ
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘It is essential to the validity of tax sales, not merely that they should bo conducted in conformity with the requirements of the law, but that they should be conducted with entire fairness. Perfect freedom from all influences likely to prevent competition in the sale should in all cases, be strictly exacted’.””
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.