Elder v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 2015
5 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 Buck v. Payne · Hill v. Robertson
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the mortgagee. The court in that case was considering a mortgage without a power of sale, but the case is authority for the doctrine that the mortgagee after the maturity of the secured debt and a failure to pay is the owner of the property mortgaged and is entitled to possession to make his security available. . . . After showing the differences between the rights of a mortgagee and a cestui que trust [who has been granted a deed of trust], and the points of agreement between them, this court, in Clark v. Wilson, 53 Miss. [119,] 130 [(1876)], says this:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Upon the maturity of a debt and a failure to pay, the legal title became absolute”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.