Moore v. Tillman’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2012
16 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 Ruddy v. Rossi · Ringo v. Woodruff · Gustav Hafemann v. Fred a Gross F H · Whittington v. Flint · Kirkaldie v. Larrabee
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] mortgage of lands is not a conveyance thereof carrying the absolute and unrestricted title thereto. On the contrary, while a mortgage at law does carry the legal title, it is not, either at law or in equity, an absolute, unconditional, and indefeasible title. It becomes such only after the mortgagor has breached the condition of the mortgage and his equity of redemption has been foreclosed. In other words, while the legal title under the law does vest in the mortgagee, still this is only for the purpose of enabling him to obtain security for the satisfaction of the debt or obligation due him by the mortgagor; and, when that satisfaction is obtained, the legal title vests and remains in the mortgagor .... Thus, after all is said and done, a mortgage, in common parlance as well as legal acceptation, is an instrument evidencing a security for debt. . . .”
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.