Decker v. Patton’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 1992 · most notably Harding v. Gillett (1909), Murray v. Wiley (1942)
26 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 Hollingsworth v. Koon · Pitman v. Thornton
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But it is said in the argument, that the property was worth more than the mortgage debt, and if there were judgment creditors, it was erroneous to decree a strict foreclosure. Had this been a bill to foreclose a mortgage, and had a decree been rendered cutting off the rights of parties in interest, without a sale of the mortgaged premises, and denying the redemption provided by the statute, there might be force in the argument. But such was not the case. . . . The decree which was rendered in this case may, and probably does, cut off all equities and rights of Decker in case he fails to redeem within the time prescribed by the decree, but that does not render it a strict foreclosure decree, as contended by counsel for plaintiff in error. On the other hand, it is an ordinary decree on bill to redeem.””
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.