Demarest v. Berry’s Empirical Analysis
1864
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently June 1927
3 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.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The complainants have filed two bills of foreclosure upon two mortgages, both of which were in their hands when the first bill was filed. If both motrgages cover the same premises, two suits were unnecessary and oppressive, and the complainants will be allowed costs but in one suit. It is understood that the filing of the second bill was rendered necessary by the fact that the mortgage upon which the first bill was filed, covered a part only of the premises included in the other mortgage; a circumstance which escaped attention at the time of filing the first bill. If this be so, proceedings in the first suit should be stayed, and the *Page 29 second suit alone proceed to decree. The question of costs will be reserved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.