Waybright v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably 300 So. 2d 679 - Ohio Rlty. Inv. Corp. v. Southern Bk. of W. Palm Beach (1974), Eristavitchitcherine v. Miami Beach Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n (1944)
27 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 Cragin v. Ocean & Lake Realty Co. · Ruff v. Guaranty Title & Trust Co. · Atlantic Shores Corp. v. Zetterlund · Gober v. Braddock, Jr. · Younghusband v. Fort Pierce Bank & Trust 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In determining who is entitled to surplus proceeds arising in a foreclosure sale, it is the general rule that all incumbrances on mortgaged premises inferior to the mortgage on which the sale is based, must be paid in the order of time in which they respectively became liens, except as some equitable right demands a different order of payment.””
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.