Horse Springs Cattle Co. v. Schofield’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 1940
1 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Kneeland v. American Loan & Trust Co. · Graffam v. Burgess · Schroeder v. Young · Cunningham v. Neagle · Williamson v. Dale
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A resale should be granted, but out of the purchase money received from the sale the former purchaser, Iiayes, shall be repaid the purchase price heretofore paid by him, and interest thereon at 6 per cent, per annum from the 17th day of January, 1806, and also his reasonable costs and expenses of defending the sale heretofore made to him, including his solicitor’s fees in this and the court below.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gibbs v. Claar
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.