Holmes v. Holmes’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 1965
7 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 Phelps v. Abbott · Green v. Langdon · Dunham v. W. Steele Packing & Provision 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No hardship is worked to these defendants by the transfer of this mortgage from the mortgagee to the complainants; and there is no justice in saying that these complainants, the natural objects of the mortgagee’s bounty, should, of all the world, be excluded from accepting it. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.