Adams v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1812
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 1913
11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ There is no law or justice that a party who sues out and delivers to the sheriff a valid process, should be liable for the irregularity of the sheriff in executing the process, unless it appears affirmatively that the sheriff acted under his orders when he committed the trespass.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Anderson v. Schmidt
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.