Fiske v. Tolman’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1999 · most notably Shepherd v. May (1885), Elliott v. Sackett (1883)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 34 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Furnas v. Durgin · Belmont v. . Coman
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A promise to pay the mortgage debt cannot be inferred from the acceptance of the deed, on the ground that the clause contains this reference to the consideration. Taken by themselves, the words do not necessarily imply any obligation to be performed by the grantee. They are to be considered rather as additional words of recital or description, showing that the whole amount of the consideration was not paid or intended to be paid, but that the grantee had purchased only an equity of redemption.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Pelser v. Gingold · Shult v. Doyle
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.