Hackett v. Potter’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 1968
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Kline v. Baker · Ely v. James · Hill v. Gilman · Lathrop v. Blake · Ames v. McCamber
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Tbe debt secured “must be a debt due and owing from tbe mortgagor to the mortgagee. If it is giren to secure a liability, it must be the liability of the mortgagee assumed for the mortgagor. If it is given to secure the performance of any other agreement, it must be an agreement between the mortgagor and the mortgagee, to the truth, validity, and justice of which they are both able to testify.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Caledonian Co.
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.