Axman v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 2014
2 federal appellate · 11 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 Tripp v. Cook · Dunn v. McCoy · Tatum v. Holliday · Denning v. Smith · Lipscomb v. New York Life Insurance
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A trustee is not the mere agent or attorney for the holder of the note, but he is the trusted agent of both *Page 532 debtor and creditor. [Jones on Mort. (5 Ed.) sec. 1771.] In the sale of property under a deed like the one in question, he should use all reasonable effort and methods to make it bring as much as possible, and he should be fair and impartial as between debtor and creditor”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lunsford v. Davis
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.