Otis v. Gregory’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Miller v. Jackson Township (1912), Cook v. Walling (1889)
2 federal appellate · 43 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 Bethell v. Bethell · Spalding v. Bank of Muskingum · Tuthill v. . Morris · Luntz v. Greve · Scranton v. Stewart
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was, therefore, agreed that the appellant should release his mortgage on the property sold, so as to enable the appellee to receive the whole of the purchase-money, which was to be applied in payment of the property purchased, so that, instead of owing her vendor part of the purchase price, she would owe the appellant the amount which he had in effect paid, or transferred to her to be paid, on the LaPorte county land. . . . The controlling question in cases of this character is, whether or not the debt owing is, as to the debtor, the balance due for purchase-money. . . . The appellant having, at the appellee’s request, in effect paid five hundred dollars of the purchase money for her under an agreement that he was to hold a lien upon the land purchased, although the particular lien contemplated has miscarried, he will be subrogated by a court of equity to the rights of the vendor who received his money.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““If, upon looking through the transaction, it appears that the debt which the party owes is in fact part of the purchase price of land, acquired in the transaction out of which the debt arose, a lien will be declared upon the land in favor of the person to whom such debt is due.””
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.