Hancock v. Fleming’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
6 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently March 1991 · most notably Gregory v. Arms (1911), Bunch v. Grave (1887)
6 district · 44 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 Elston v. Castor · Sidener v. Pavey · Atherton v. Toney · Spray v. Rodman · Ayers v. Adams
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The difference between the purchasers assuming the payment of the mortgage, and simply buying subject to the mortgage, is simply that in the one case he makes himself personally liable for the payment of the debt, and in the other case he does not assume such liability . . .’ The land, nevertheless, remained the primary fund as between the purchaser and the mortgagee, out of which payment of the debt must be made.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.