Smith v. Bush’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2019
18 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 Murdock v. . Waterman · 2 Tex. Civ. App. 494 - Johnston v. Lasker Real Estate Ass'n · Meagher v. Hayes · Foster v. Augustanna College & Theological Seminary · Kendall v. Clarke
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The payment of a portion of the principal or interest on .a debt secured by a real estate mortgage, by the debtor and mortgagor (who still retains an interest in the mortgaged premises) after the debt becomes due and before the expiration of five years from the due date, prevents the statute of limitations from barring a foreclosure of the mortgage against portions of or interests in the mortgaged property acquired by third persons after the mortgage is recorded, until five years after such payment was made.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A lien is to be deemed accessory to the act for the performance of which it is a security whether any person is bound for such performance or not, and is extinguishable in like manner with any other accessory obligation.”
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.