Cowling v. Nulson’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 1942
2 federal appellate · 18 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 Collins v. Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Co. · Hutts v. Martin · Morrow v. James · Falls v. Wright · Lumpkins v. Johnson
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This court has held that the five-year statute does not apply to judicial sales, unless they are confirmed, because there is no sale until that act. Lumpkins v. Johnson, 61 Ark. 80 , 32 S. W. 65 ; Morrow v. James, 69 Ark. 539 , 64 S. W. 269 . When confirmed, and the court has jurisdiction over tho parties, the five-year statute runs in favor of the purchaser at such sale against the parties thereto, although the sale is void. It is a statute of repose, and, if valid', the purchaser needs no limitation to ripen his title, and the manifest purpose of the Legislature was to apply it to avoid sales within the limitations mentioned.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.