Terrell v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 1947
5 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 United States v. Fisher · John Conard v. The Atlantic Insurance Company New York · United States v. Hooe Et Al. · United States v. Barker · Thelusson v. Smith
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The subsequent good faith purchaser doubtlessly is as innocent as the prior mortgagee, but not more so; one must lose because there can be no accommodation of rights in the premises. There is here applicable the maxim ‘between equal equities the law will prevail,” or its companion, ‘between equal equities the first in order of time shall prevail,’ according to whether the estate of the mortgagee is legal or equitable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Elsey v. Shaw““A mortgage is a conveyance of property and passes it conditionally.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Potter v. Vernon
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.