Pike v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 14 state decisions

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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “all in-formalities connected with, or growing out of, any public sale made by any person authorized to sell at .public auction, shall be prescribed against by those claiming under such sale, after the lapse of five years from the time of making it, whether against minors, married women, or interdicted persons.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Davis v. Gaines · Evans v. Pike

2. ““From these authorities (and others to the same effect could be cited) it is evident that although informalities occurring in a sheriff’s proceedings under execution may be good ground for annulling a sale made by him if taken advantage of in time, yet that if the sheriff has authority to sell, and does sell, and execute a deed to the purchaser, the latter, if a purchaser in good, faith, may set up the prescription of five years under the statute. * * * ” (Italics ours)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Union Cent. Life Ins. Co.