Barton v. Conley’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1984
2 district · 8 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But the statute does not extend the foreclosure period. In effect it imposes a condition which the mortgagee must perform or be held to have waived his foreclosure. He may perform the condition at once on the expiration of the year or at his option at any time within- three months.. If the affidavit is seasonably recorded the foreclosure is complete at the end of the year. If not, it is invalidated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Conley v. Barton“that the amendment by its terms relates to all foreclosures begun after its passage •including foreclosures of prior existing mortgages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Conley v. Barton“by extending the foreclosure period for three months after the expiration of the year,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Conley v. Barton
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.