Irvin v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 1950 · most notably Moore v. Miller (1913), 60 Tex. Civ. App. 315 - 1st Nat. Bk. v. So. Beaumont L. I. (1910)
30 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The execution in question, while on its face not irregular as to time of issuance, showed that the return-day had long passed when the sale was made; and if we look to the indorsement of date when the writ issued, that, in connection with the face of the writ, would show that it was the first writ issued, and that more than a year had elapsed after the judgment was rendered, before that was done. There were such irregularities in the process as would affect such a sale, and tend to deter prudent men from bidding for the property who, otherwise might have desired to purchase it, and be willing to pay a fair price for it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sias v. Berly
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.