Michael v. Crawford’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Slaughter v. Qualls (1942), Houston First American Savings v. Musick (1983)
76 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.
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The power of sale in a deed of trust is an important power. It is a method provided for the transferring of one man's property to another. The maker of the instrument has the right to impose upon its exercise such conditions as he deems necessary, and such limitations as he does impose must be strictly followed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A power whose exercise involves discretion is not delegable; * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Norwood v. Davis
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.