Smith v. Burnes’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 1903
4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There was no formal levy of the order of sale on said lot. This we think was not necessary. The court had complete jurisdiction of the property without any formal levy. The court ordered that it be sold ; and the sheriff had no power to seize or sell any more or any less than the specific lot which he was ordered to sell. Wheatly v. Tutt, 4 Kan. 195 . The order of sale was not a general execution which the sheriff could levy on any property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Norton v. Reardon
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.