Cutler v. Huston’s Empirical Analysis
158 U.S. 423 · 1895
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1983 · most notably Chicot County Drainage District v. Baxter State Bank (1940), Swift & Co. v. United States (1928)
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 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 Norris v. Jackson · McCormick v. Sullivant · Evers v. Watson
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every chattel mortgage which shall not be accompanied by an immediate delivery, and followed by an actual and continued change of possession of the things mortgaged shall be absolutely void as against the creditors of the mortgagor. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Griffin
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.