Collins v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 1960 · most notably Meyer v. State Board of Equalization (1954), Estate of Clark (1923)
1 federal appellate · 24 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 Raynor v. Drew · Hall v. Arnott · Monterey County v. Cushing · Kelly v. McKibben · Barber v. Reynolds
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As heirs at law of the mortgagor, Lemuel P. Collins, these plaintiffs were not necessary parties to the action to foreclose. Bayly v. Muehe, 65 Cal. 345 , 3 Pac. 467 , and 4 Pac. 486 ; Monterey Co. v. Cushing, 83 Cal. 507 , 23 Pac. 700 . And whether or not they were made parties defendant in that action is of no moment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hearfield v. Bridges
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.