White v. Luning’s Empirical Analysis
93 U.S. 514 · 1876
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 5 district · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2013 · most notably Simmons Creek Coal Co. v. Doran (1892), Security Land Exploration Company v. G a Burns (1904)
11 federal appellate · 5 district · 56 state decisions — followed in 21 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.
Relationships
Relies on Baesler v. Globe Indemnity Co. · Davis v. Rainsford · Shipp v. Miller's heirs · Shewalter v. Pirner
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Obviously, therefore, there are no merits in tills defense. It rests alone on the idea that, sheriffs’ deeds and ordinary deeds inter partes are subject to different rules of construction, in regard, however, to the description of the property conveyed, the rules are the same, whether the deed be made by a party in his own right, or by an officer of the court.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cox v. Hart · Fleischman v. Bowser““The policy of tlie law does not require courts to scrutinize the proceedings of a judicial sale with a view to defeat them. On the contrary, every reasonable intendment will he made in their favor, so as to secure, if it can he done consistently with legal rules, the object they were intended to accomplish. Is this deed'void for uncertainty of description, or can the property intended to he conveyed he reasonably located by that description? The court below located it by adopting, except in one instance, the calls for courses and distances, and rejecting as false and repugnant certain calls for known objects. It is true that, as a general rule, monuments, natural or artificial, referred to in a deed, control on its construction, rather than courses and distances. But the rule is not inflexible. It yields whenever, taking all the particulars of the deed together, it would be absurd to apply it. For instance, if the rejection' of (a call for a monument would reconcile other parts of the description, and leave enough to identify and render certain the land which the sheriff intended to convey, it would certainly be absurd to retain the false call, and thus defeat the conveyance.””
3 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.