Heller v. Lamar’s Empirical Analysis
77 F.2d 389 · 1935
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 1992
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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 Graffam v. Burgess · Pewabic Mining Co. v. Mason · Morrison v. Burnette · Everett v. Forst · Bulloch v. Fisher
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The appellant shows no peculiar damage, beyond alleging that he has made the deposit required and is ready to complete the sale, which he says was properly conducted, and where his bid was a fair one. “But we are of opinion that the history and circumstances of the transaction presented a question for the discretion of the chancellor, and that his decision thereof should not be set aside except- for a clear abuse of his power, which certainly does not appear in this case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Coulter v. Blieden“The purchaser bids with full notice that the sale to him is subject to confirmation by the court and that there is a power granted and a duty imposed upon the judicial tribunal when it comes to decide whether or not the sale shall be confirmed to so exercise its judicial power as to secure for the owners of the property the largest practical terms. He is aware that his rights as a purchaser are subject to the rational exercise of this discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Farmer v. Farmer
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.