Youree v. Limerick’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently April 1993 · most notably Lerner Stores Corp. v. Electric Maid Bake Shops (1928), Central Sav. Bank & Trust Co. v. Oilfield Supply & Scrap Material Co. (1943)
2 federal appellate · 50 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 Kirkpatrick & Co. v. Oldham
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘“The manifest purpose of the law is to permit persons owning only personal property, to borrow money on the security of such property. In many cases, the sole recourse of the mortgaged creditor is against the mortgaged chattels, hence the necessity of ranking the chattel mortgage lien above any privilege arising subsequently thereto.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burglass v. Wright
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.