Gardner v. Eberhart’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 1933
19 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 Hill v. Bacon · Linton v. Quimby
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ It is no part of the office of a sheriff’s return to show what land is sold upon the execution. The office of the return is to show the satisfaction or .part satisfaction of the judgment or the failure to make satisfaction of any part of the judgment. Where land 'is sold at sheriff’s sale, the sale, with the subject-matter thereof and the name of the purchaser, may be shown by the certificate of purchase or by the recitals in the sheriff’s deed.” (McDaniel v. Bryan, 8 Ill. App. 273 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kimmel v. Meier““The name at the head of the paper was no part of the demand, and was merely intended to designate the person to whom it should be delivered. The demand was perfect without the address, and no name need have been written on the face of the demand.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lusk v. State
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.