Hunter v. Mellen’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 1947
9 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 Hodges Bros. v. Coleman & Carroll · Childress v. Monette · Powers v. Andrews · Ward v. Ward · Aiken v. Bridgeford & Co.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The foreclosure proceedings being regular, the sale under the power contained in the mortgage is equivalent to a strict foreclosure by a court of equity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vines v. Wilcutt
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.