McFall v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 district · 30 state decisions

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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Real estate once sold upon order of sale, special execution or general execution shall not again be liable for sale for any balance due upon the judgment or decree under which the same is sold, or any judgment or lien inferior thereto, and under which the holder had a right to redeem. . . .” (L. 1893, Ch. 109, §23.)”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. International Harvester Credit Corp. v. Ross · Union Central Life Insurance v. Reser

2. ““Where a senior mortgagee brought suit, foreclosed his mortgage and purchased the property at sheriff’s sale, not having made a junior mortgagee a party: Held, (a) the junior mortgagee’s rights were not affected by the proceedings; (£>) the junior mortgagee was not barred for failure to redeem the land, and an action by the senior mortgagee afterwards to quiet title against the junior mortgagee was of no avail.” (Syl. ¶ 1.)”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lenexa State Bank & Trust Co. v. Dixon · Motor Equipment Co. v. Winters

3. ““The Federal Land Bank of Wichita commenced actions in the district court of Morton county, numbered, respectively, 2297, 2298 and 2299, to foreclose separate mortgages on separate tracts of land owned by the mortgagor, M. C. Combs. On September 3, 1928, judgment was rendered in each case in favor of the Land Bank and against Combs for the sum due and for foreclosure of mortgage. Mrs. Thomas held a second mortgage on the land involved in case 2297, and was made a party defendant in that suit. On September 3, 1928, when the Land Bank judgment was rendered in case 2297, Mrs. Thomas recovered a personal judgment against Combs, and judgment for foreclosure of mortgage. Afterwards the land involved in case 2297 was sold, with the result that no part of the judgment of Mrs. Thomas against Combs was satisfied. At the time the suits in cases 2298 and 2299 were filed, Mrs. Thomas had no lien of any kind on the tracts involved in those suits. It was neither necessary nor proper to make her a party defendant in those suits, and she was not made a party. When, however, the personal judgment against Combs was rendered in her favor in case 2297, the judgment became a lien on the tracts involved in cases 2298 and 2299, by virtue of R. S. 60-3126. The tracts involved in cases 2298 and 2299 were sold pursuant to the foreclosure judgments in favor of the Land Bank. The bank purchased at the sales for the amount of its judgments, interest, and costs, and received certificates of purchase. Combs”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Federal Land Bank v. Brown