Spire v. Spire’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 1968
4 federal appellate · 9 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 Rogers v. Meyers · Lonnon v. Batchman · Severy State Bank v. Hoyt · State Bank v. Jeltz
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Being a maker, who was primarily and absolutely bound to pay the notes according to their tenor, Ambrose Spire was, as between himself and the payee, a principal debtor, and payment by his administrator discharged the notes. (Negotiable-instruments Law, § 126, Gen. Stat. 1915, § 6647.) Discharge of the notes discharged the lien of the mortgage. It was then the duty of the mortgagee to enter a release of the mortgage on the record. The administrator could do nothing to keep the mortgage alive, and nothing remained on which equitable assignment or equitable subrogation could operate.” (p. 502.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Coffin
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.