Willcox v. Goess’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 1967
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 21 · 28 U.S.C. § 41
Relies on Johnson v. Manhattan Railway Co. · Schoenthal v. Irving Trust Co. · Benedict v. Ratner · American National Bank v. Miller · Henry Wyman v. Sumner Wallace
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The mortgagor is, to the public, the apparent owner. The statute requires a statement to be filed, to show the true interest of the parties, for the protection of the public. Whatever its purpose, it is enough that the statute so declares.””
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.