Martin v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 1978
7 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 Winnipiseogee Paper Co. v. Eaton
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The only mention of a prior mortgage in the mortgage deed to the plaintiffs is in the covenant of freedom from incumbrances as follows: ‘they’ (the premises) ‘are free of all incumbrances except a mortgage to the said Abbie R. Smith. ’ The granting clauses, the habendum, and the covenant of full warranty are unconditional and without exception and operate to convey all the title of each grantor without exception. The exception in the covenant of freedom from incumbrances does not limit the effect of the prior unconditional grant. Maker v. Lasell, 83 Maine 562 . ’’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Billings v. Billings
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.