Union Mut Life Ins Co v. Hanford’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 district · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently March 1979 · most notably Alabama-Florida Co. v. Mays (1933), Pratt v. Conway (1899)
2 district · 49 state decisions — followed in 25 states
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 Keller v. Ashford · Miller v. Stewart · Willard v. Wood · Shepherd v. May · Calvo v. . Davies
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The grantee is not directly liable to the mortgagee, at law or in equity; and the only remedy of the mortgagee against the grantee is by bill in equity in the right of the mortgagor and grantor, by virtue of the right in equity of a creditor to avail himself of any security which his debtor holds from a third person for the payment of the debt. Keller v. Ashford, 133 U. S. 610 , 10 Sup. Ct. 494 ; Willard v. Wood, 135 U. S. 309 , 10 Sup. Ct. 831 ;” Insurance Co. v. Hanford, 143 U. S. 189 , 190, 12 Sup. Ct. 437 ; Willard v. Wood, 164 U. S. 502 , 519, 17 Sup., Ct. 176 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Green v. Turner““In that view of the law, there might be difficulties in the way of holding that a person who was under no direct liability to the mortgagee was his principal debtor, and that the only person who was directly liable to him [the original debtor] was chargeable as a surety only, and consequently that the mortgagee, by giving time to the person not directly and primarily liable to him, would discharge the only person who was thus liable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Caraway v. Fowler““According to tliat view, tlie grantee, as soon as the mortgagee knows of the arrangement, becomes directly and primarily liable to the mortgagee for the debt for which the mortgagor was already liable to the latter, and the relation of the grantee and the grantor towards the mortgagee, as well as between themselves, is thenceforth that of principal and surety for the payment of the mortgage debt.””
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.