French v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
80 U.S. 506 · 1871
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 7 district · 99 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 235 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably United States v. James Daniel Good Real Property (1993), Escoe v. Zerbst (1935)
63 federal appellate · 7 district · 99 state decisions — followed in 26 states
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 235 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But when the requisitions prescribed are intended for the protection of the citizen, and to prevent a sacrifice of his property, and.by a disregard of which his rights might be and generally would be injuriously affected, they are not directory, but mandatory.”,”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * If a sheriff should refer in his deed to an execution issued to him, and recite that in obedience to it, and the statute in such case provided, he had sold the property to the highest bidder, it would be presumed that he had done his duty in the premises, given proper advertisement, and made the sale at public auction in the proper manner.””
2 later decisions 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.